PIAA supports government Taskforce proposal

Healey, one of 80 invited delegates, says he has asked the Prime Minister to include Printing Industries on the Taskforce as the representative of one of the most significant employer groups in manufacturing.

He adds he agrees with forum keynote speaker Andrew Liveris that successful economies “require considered government intervention.”

Healey says, “We support the Taskforce proposal as a way of providing better co-ordinated use of government initiatives already in place such as Enterprise Connect and the Accelerated Apprenticeship programme.

“My past experience with these types of holistic approaches is that they generally have been unsuccessful because of a lack of responsiveness on the part of individual government agencies and/or limited co-ordination across the public sector.

“I left the Forum optimistic that the new Taskforce will provide a way to overcome these problems.”

Healey says he believes the Taskforce could complement the work of the Printing Industry Working Group that has already been established by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and that together they could help identify policies and programs to assist members and the broader industry.

He says, “We are an industry sector that is undergoing significant structural change.

“Such change requires businesses to redefine themselves by converging traditional printing skills and knowledge with a range of new areas such as information and communication technologies, the creative arts and logistics and supply chain management.”

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