Published on Wednesday16thApril2014

Draft National Risk Assessment launched for public consultation

The Government today published the Draft National Risk Assessment (NRA) 2014.

The purpose of the NRA is to identify the risks, both financial and non-financial, which Ireland faces and therefore ensure appropriate prevention and mitigation measures are introduced.

It is part of a package alongside the National Reform Programme and Stability Programme Update.

The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has said that one of the priorities as Ireland moves towards economic recovery is ‘to ensure we learn from the mistakes of the past.  One of those mistakes was complacency at a time of prosperity so that serious questions were avoided.

Read the full press release here.

Read the document here: 

Draft NRA 2014

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