INCREASED URGENCY TO Change in importance since last More Less ADDRESS year, in Ireland Net change Important Important FOUNDATIONAL Improving our healthcare system +74 79 5 PROBLEMS Addressing poverty in this country +58 65 7 Change in importance since last year Finding ways to combat fake news +53 61 8 (more important minus less important) Addressing climate change +51 60 9 Protecting people's individual freedoms +51 59 8 Improving our education system +47 55 8 Addressing discrimination, racism +46 55 9 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. IMP_POL_PRIORITIES. For each of Closing the economic and social divide +46 54 8 the following issues and challenges, please indicate whether our country addressing it has become more important to you, less important to you, or has stayed the same in importance, since last year. 5-point scale; top 2 box; more important; bottom 2 box, less important. General population, Ireland. Net change is the difference between more and less important. 15