Second, be selective in the choice of priorities. Third, instead of spreading the funds thinly, allocate enough to the main priorities to make a conspicuous short-term difference. Fourth, avoid the short term temptations of reducing social disadvantage in ways which do not offer a sustainable longer term set of answers. Perhaps three things stand out. First, Peace II should be heavily orientated to a series of widely based enhanced skills and vocational training programmes and a continuation of the special contribution of the District Partnerships.
Bureaucrats have the fundamental weakness that they like to do a bit of everything.
Now there is an opportunity to be more radical.