We need a new economic plan to build local strengths
For Ireland to reach its economic development potential over the next 20 years, Irish policymakers need to undergo a change of mindset. Priority should be given to developing critical masses of internationally competitive indigenous enterprises. To do this involves seeing economic development as a bottom-up organic process as opposed to the existing over-centralised view. It requires that we design fit-for-purpose city regions, towns and rural places and that control and responsibility for enterprise development be decentralised to elected authorities in these places with tax raising powers.
Thu, 02 Nov, 2017