The problems are clear, now for the solutions

The committee seats have been filled and a can-do Assembly built on dialogue not paperwork is being built, we are told.

The vision for the next four years is positive and, as yet, untarnished by events.

Health, happiness and prosperity with a sustainable economy and realistic expectations from the public.

We all wish the States well in those ambitions.

But the true measure of this Assembly will come not from fine words and positive vibes – the last few States have all been good at those – but from the quality of the policies pursued and the speed with which they are executed.

These will take weeks, months, if not years, to be drawn up, published, debated and implemented. ‘Action Today’ captures the public mood well but the wheels of democracy grind slow and even the removal of bureaucracy takes time.

That leaves Chief Minister Peter Ferbrache free for the moment of the chains of published policy and the shackles of detail that come with it.

So the fiscal review is currently a work in progress, not a public document. The goal is to broaden the tax base without necessarily increasing the burden on taxpayers. Not much to get excited about there, but the devil will be in the detail.

Likewise, the education review is ongoing. We can be almost certain it will recommend a three-school model, but which one? It is that information which will drive the debate.

Deputy Ferbrache has his favoured paths on affordable housing, over-regulation, Aurigny debts, government borrowing, a runway extension and civil service reform but accepts that, in a consensus government, all roads are possible.

Those wide avenues of possibility will narrow as the States moves from simply identifying problems to suggesting practical and itemised solutions.

At that point the honeymoon will be over and the Assembly will move into the trickier stage of marrying public expectations with political reality.