A recent survey of Dublin Chamber's member identified their key priorities in advance of the coming election as Transport and Competitiveness. Of the areas surveyed Transport was also seen by members as being in the poorest current state, followed by Coordinated Governance for Dublin.   

 

Dublin Chamber's members ranked the six issues below in terms of what the priorities for Government over the next 5 years should be:

1.      Transport Infrastructure

2.      Competitiveness / Business Cost

3.      Quality of Life

4.      Investment in Science, Education and Training

5.      Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture

6.      Coordinated Governance for Dublin

 

With a very positive response rate of over 12.5% (210 responses) from 181 different companies, employing over 139,000 workers and with a turnover in excess of €35.5 bn (excluding financial sector). Dublin Chamber drew from these results in its recently released 'Dublin Business Priorities' document.  

 

While the issue of Coordinate Governance for Dublin ranked low this issue was identified as an important element in improving other high priorities, such as Transport, Business Costs and Quality of Life, and therefore it was seen as being addressed within those areas rather than separately. 

Members were asked to assess the current state of the above six categories out of a score of 10 (highest being 10; lowest being 0). The overall rankings were as follows:

1. Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture                  6.4
2. Investment in Science, Education and Training    6.2
3. Quality of Life                                               5.6
4. Competitiveness                                            4.9
5. Coordinated Governance for Dublin                    4.3
6. Transport                                                     3.6

A detailed assessment of this evaluation is available on the pdf version.

When asked how optimistic they are that issues they highlighted would improve over the next 5 years less than 10% were highly or very confident.