Sustaining Progress - Department of Taoiseach

4.1.4 Public Enterprise
The Government is committed to ensuring that the commercial semi-State sector provides services of
world-class quality at competitive prices to the consumer. This includes seeking to secure a viable
long-term future for State companies without ideological preconceptions: the issue of the most
appropriate form of ownership or structure for State companies will be approached on a case-by-case
basis. The objective is to achieve optimum service delivery and value for the public, with public
enterprise being managed in a spirit of social partnership, while giving the maximum commercial
freedom to semi-State companies, subject to the fulfilment of national strategic and balanced
regional policy objectives and ensuring appropriate arrangements for provision of services of
general interest.
In progressing this commitment, the Government is committed to active engagement with the
social partners.
4.1.5 Contents
Agreed objectives and details of actions already underway or proposed by Government are set out in
the remainder of this chapter in relation to:
■ Infrastructure
● Funding
● PPPs
● Procurement
● Construction Industry
● Broadband
● Transport
● Ports
● Energy
● Sustainable Energy
■ The Environment
● National Climate Change Strategy
● National Emissions Ceiling Directive
● Water Services
■ Adaptation to Continuing Change
● Knowledge-based Economy and Society
● Lifelong Learning
● Regulation
● Entrepreneurship
● Small Business
● Tourism
● Promoting North/South Partnership
● External Relations – EU and the Wider World
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