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[Article] Warning of jobs risk from road cuts

  • 15-06-2009 7:24am
    #1
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    Nothing really new here, but an article nonetheless. Have to say I haven't heard of the CECA before.

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    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0615/breaking8.htm

    Warning of jobs risk from road cuts

    Up to 10,000 jobs will be lost in the construction industry over the coming year because of a slowdown in road building, contractors claimed today.

    The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) accused the Government of effectively winding down the programme for new national and secondary routes.

    CECA president Pat McCarthy said highly qualified and experienced workers are already being laid off at an alarming rate.

    “At present up to 10,000 construction workers including machine drivers, pavers, pipe layers, engineers and other construction professionals are engaged in road building,” he said. “All of these projects will be complete by the middle of 2010. Following this the workers will be unemployed and the plant and machinery will be moved to Eastern Europe.”

    Contractors claimed the industry will shift to competing economies in Eastern Europe where there is still business in road-building projects.

    Mr McCarthy said a number of promised new national roads had been shelved, including the “Atlantic Corridor” from Sligo to Waterford; the completion of the N11 from Dublin to Wexford and the completion of the N3 to Cavan.

    Other smaller upgrade projects like the N60 Castlebar to Athlone, the N80 Enniscorthy to Portlaoise as well as peninsular routes in Cork, Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal have been postponed, according to the CECA president.

    “While the government is insisting they will continue with investment in the order of €6 billion per year over the next six years, there is absolutely no evidence on the ground that this is happening,” he said.

    Mr McCarthy claimed the postponement of projects made a mockery of claims the Government wanted to keep people in employment during the recession.


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  • #2
    godtabh
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    If there is no money to built the roads let them fight for work else where.

    Every one else has to


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