Restoring confidence in public finances ‘top priority’

RESTORING confidence in the public finances should be the Government’s top priority in the short term, but driving innovation is the biggest medium-term concern, a survey of business leaders has revealed.

More than 50% of those questioned for the survey, at yesterday’s National Leadership Forum hosted by the Irish Management Institute (IMI) at its headquarters in Sandyford, Co Dublin, said that reinvigorating the public finances and the country’s financial system were the single most important issues facing the Government right now.

Around 48% also highlighted boosting business innovation as the most important issue in the longer term.