Bailout targets met at huge cost

Government policy has met the bailout targets, but at major cost.

Decisions made have produced a fractured society, a weak economy, persistently high unemployment, and emigration. This is not real recovery.

Starting today Ireland needs a new approach which prioritises investment, promotes public services, protects vulnerable people and communities and ensures its development is underpinned by an equitable tax system. In doing this all its decisions have to be sustainable in the long term.