The National Competitiveness Council (NCC), today (18 July 2018) published its annual benchmarking report, Ireland’s Competitiveness Scorecard 2018. The Scorecard provides a comprehensive statistical assessment of Ireland's competitiveness performance with regard to a range of countries with which we compete on international markets for trade and investment.

Speaking at the launch of the report, Professor Peter Clinch, Chair of the Council commented: “The risks to Ireland’s prosperity at this point are increasing and the process of reform and improvement must be intensified if Ireland is to avoid the kind of trajectory that we experienced in the lead up to the last economic crisis”.

The full report is available here

An accompanying Press Release is available here