Excellent speakers attended The Wheel’s
conference during the summer, among them Martyn Evans, Mary Murphy and Brendan
Halligan, REPORTS ALLEN MEAGHER.
Company boards were identified as the
greatest barrier to advocacy work, co-operation is the way forward (no
surprise) and we’ve to be wary of the market and “sharp-elbowed people”.
Martyn Evans, CEO of the Carnegie UK
Trust noted that the average life expectancy of Irish males had risen greatly
in the past 100 years (from 53 to 79 years) and the current social system
appeared to have served us well,
We're all healthier, wealthier, wiser, and
certainly better educated. But income inequality in Ireland has changed very
little, he noted. For example, 10% of children leave school unable to read.
While there have been massive improvements,
they have been differentially distributed which is a sign of “system failure”.
One outcome, he said, was that less than 50%
of people across Europe have trust in their governments, according to the OECD.
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