At the outset I should stress that the statements made about
the Danish economy and society are largely impressionistic, being based on discussions and subjective observation during five days in Denmark, supplemented by some background reading and study of statistics. But, the major purpose of my visit, and of this report, was not to study
Denmark as such but rather to view Irish problems, and the research we are doing on them, in the light of Danish experience. Moreover, I did not go there with an open mind: I had, so to speak many hypotheses relating to Ireland already in mind and I wanted to see how these looked
when viewed against a Danish background
