The phrase "a lively issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a topic or matter that is currently generating a lot of interest, debate, or discussion.
Example: "The debate over climate change has become a lively issue in recent years, attracting attention from scientists, politicians, and the public alike."
Alternatives: "a hot topic" or "a vibrant matter".
Europe has become a lively issue in Scotland and Wales.
What it shows is that this is a lively issue and there are many people who are truly engaged.
Rather, Morton was measuring his skulls to study human variation, as part of his inquiry into whether God had created the human races separately (a lively issue before Darwin decreed that everyone belonged to the same species).
This debate was recently fought out in a lively issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review, a bimonthly magazine published in Washington, in which one of the minimalists, the British scholar Philip Davies, wrote that biblical accounts of early Israel were purely theological, not historical.
The right to food is finally becoming a lively political issue in India.
Original documents, film clips and interactive gadgets dramatize the still lively issues surrounding the document.
New Yorkers are fortunate to still have a lively contest of issues, ideas and personalities.
For all parties, a lively debate over issues like policing, education and family values helps divert attention from the biggest problem facing any new government: the huge deficit.
Participants in this group included biologists, geneticists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians, all of whom contributed to a lively discussion of issues arising from analysis of the GAW18 data.
This week we also asked Guardian users if they would be taking part in strike action and why - the result was a lively debate about the issues behind the strikes.
(If urban affairs was the new Administration's central domestic preoccupation, it may have been in part because urban renewal — what was often referred to simply as "the cities" — had become a lively and fashionable political issue in the late nineteen-sixties, and had been the subject of innumerable magazine articles, television specials, and university seminars).
