Members of the Northern Ireland Executive (Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye)
The Northern Ireland Executive is back — and from an economic point of view, this is a good thing, while there are many significant challenges ahead. This may seem like a fairly trite statement, but now, more than ever, it is important to affirm the positive role of devolved government.
I say this because there is a school of thought out there that we place too much faith in the ability of governments generally to ‘run the economy’ and that in actual fact they have little or no influence.
