Sustaining Progress - Department of Taoiseach

Contents
Foreword 2
Overview 6
Part One A Policy Framework for Sustaining Progress 10
Chapter 1 Introduction 11
Chapter 2 Special Initiatives 21
Chapter 3 Macroeconomic Policy 35
3.1 Overall Objective 36
3.2 Public Expenditure 38
3.3 Taxation 39
3.4 Competitiveness and Inflation 40
Chapter 4 Building, Maintaining and Sharing Economic Development and Prosperity 43
4.1 Overall Objective 44
4.2 Infrastructure 46
4.3 The Environment 49
4.4 Adaptation to Continuing Change 50
4.5 Agriculture 54
4.6 Animal Health 58
4.7 Adapting Agriculture to Change 58
4.8 Customer Service 59
4.9 Farmers as Preferrential Creditors 60
4.10 Forestry 60
4.11 Review Mechanism 61
Chapter 5 Delivering a Fair and Inclusive Society 63
5.1 Poverty and Social Inclusion 64
5.2 Health and Addressing Health Inequalities 66
5.3 Equality 68
5.4 Access to Quality Public Services 69
5.5 Challenge of Delivering a Fair and Inclusive Society 70
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