Time to Deal with a New Reality

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Time to Deal with a New Reality


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Time to Deal with a New Reality

• John Dunne
• 23rd June 2006

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Why are we here?

• A better place to live, work and do business
• Part of solution, not just defining problem
• Challenge Consensus Constructive, Consistent
• Naming problems vs talking down
• Democratic challenge of bottom-up

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Regional Development

• Gravity model
• Declining share for BMW
• GDA opportunity/threat
• NSS
• Gateways and Hubs
• Corridors and spatial clusters
• Regions whither?
• Planning
• Strategic Infrastructure Bill
• Flagship projects eg Shell
• The pro development voice

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Taking on the world

• Changing model of industrial development
• Shift to high value manufacturing and services
• 1000 new Indigenous success stories
• Indigenous favours balanced regional development
• Butler Engineering and many others
• A New Partnership
• Capacity building (Enterprise Ireland)
• Re-engineering new business models
• Networking Hanseatic league
• Succession
• Infrastructure

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Infrastructure

• Broadband
• LLU and Spectrum flexibility
• Investment still required on supply side
• Demand sell benefits not features
• Road
• Atlantic Corridor by 2015
• PCP inflation argument
• Partnership talks
• Air - PSO subsidies
• PCP absorbtion (5 GNP)