Assessment and Recommendations
I. Adjusting to Slower Growth and Ensuring Prosperity
-The Nature of the Growth Slowdown
-Future Prospects
--Short-Term Outlook
--Longer-Term Prospects
-Policy Challenges
--The Challenge for Public Finances
--Ensuring Prosperity
--Enhancing Welfare
II. Consolidating the Public Finances-
-Gradual Adjustment of Public Finances to Slower Growth
-Medium-Term Fiscal Position
-The Impact of Ageing on the Public Finances
-Control of the Public Finances and Priorities
III. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Management
-Trends in Public Expenditure in Forces Shaping Them
-Strengthening the Budgetary Process and Control
-Improving the Cost Effectiveness of Public Spending
-Challenges of Improving Spending Outcomes in Health Care and Infrastructure
-Agenda for Future Reform
IV. Sustaining Growth: The Structural Policy Dimensions
-Introduction
-Improving Regulation and Promoting Competition and Market Solutions
--The Administrative and Regulatory System
--Competition Policy and Enforcement
--Telecommunications: Establishing a Low-Cost Regime
--Electricity: Establishing Competition in a Small Market
--Transport: Introducing Competition and Independent Regulation
-Changing Focus of Industrial Policy
-Priorities in Human Capital Development
-Labour Market Policy
-Some Aspects of Sustainable Development
--Climate Change
--Reducing Water Pollution
--Improving Waste Management
Annex I. Anti-Inflation Proposals
Annex II. Social Partnership in Ireland
Annex III. The Problems Associated with Measuring Irish Productivity