The Challenge for Government: Priorities for the Next Five Years

In recent history Ireland has transform itself from an impoverished, underdeveloped economy to one with the highest growth rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union and through ceasing paramilitary violence, has become an example of conflict resolution. Despite these successes, the new government has a rough road ahead, securing the social and economic well being of citizens and building trust and confidence across the community divide. This book of essays by leading public figures in Ireland, North, and South, including senior Government ministers, is a tour d'horizon of the priorities that the new Government must put high on its agenda if these challenges are to be met and overcome.