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Towards 2016
Ten-Year Framework SocialPartnership Agreement 2006-2015
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Baile Átha CliathArna Fhoilsiú ag Oifig an tSoláthairLe ceannach díreach ónOifig Dhíolta Foilseachán Rialtais,Teach Sun Alliance, Sráid Theach Laighean, Baile Átha Cliath 2,nó tríd an bpost óFoilseacháin Rialtais an Rannóg Post-Tráchta,51 Faiche Stiabhna, Baile Átha Cliath 2,(Teil: 01-6476000; Fax: 01-6476843)(LoCall: 1890 213434; Email: opw@iol.ie)nó trí aon díoltóir leabhar.© Government of Ireland 2006PUBLISHED BY THE STATIONERY OFFICEDUBLINTo be purchased directly from theGOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICESUN ALLIANCE HOUSE, MOLESWORTH STREET, DUBLIN 2Or by mail order fromGOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, MAIL ORDER SECTION,51 ST. STEPHEN’S GREEN, DUBLIN 2,(Tel: 01-6476000; Fax: 01-6476843)(LoCall: 1890 213434; Email: opw@iol.ie)or through any bookseller.www.taoiseach.gov.iePrice
10.00ISBN 0-7557-1684-1June 2006Department of the Taoiseach,Government Buildings,Upper Merrion Street,Dublin 2
Towards 2016
 Ten-Year Framework SocialPartnership Agreement 2006-2015
 
 
Towards 2016
 
Ten-Year Framework Social Partnership Agreement 2006-2015
Foreword
I acknowledge the amount of time and effort that has gone into the making of this agreement. This reflects both theimportance of the issues under discussion and the central importance attached by all sides to maintaining our system ofsocial partnership.Social Partnership has helped to maintain a strategic focus on key national priorities, and has created and sustained theconditions for remarkable employment growth, fiscal stability, restructuring of the economy to respond to newchallenges and opportunities, a dramatic improvement in living standards, through both lower taxation and lowerinflation, and a culture of dialogue, which has served the social partners, but more importantly, the people of this country,very well.Obviously, the challenges of today are different from those of the dark days of 1987, but they are no less complex, andmeeting them together is no less important. Now, as then, partnership, as a problem solving mechanism, offers the bestway forward.
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offers the best way forward by providing an important and strategic framework for meeting the economicand social challenges ahead. Each of the previous social partnership agreements has had a particular focus and hascontained significant innovations. In this respect
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develops a new framework to address key socialchallenges, which the individual faces at each stage of life. This means a focus on the needs of children, young adults,people of working age, older people and people with disabilities.This ambitious approach will pose a major challenge – public services will need to be designed around individuals andtheir requirements, rather than based on different administrative boundaries. This approach will take time to deliver andthe agreement sets out how we propose to measure and review progress over a ten-year framework agreement.I commend the parties on all sides for the sustained commitment and leadership they have shown throughout the longand protracted negotiating process. We in Government look forward to working closely with the Social Partners torealise the ambitions we share by the historically significant date highlighted by the title,
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Bertie Ahern, T.D.,
Taoiseach
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