Xerox Junction Dundalk - Road Works

bob2oo7

Whats the story with road works at the Xerox junction in Dundalk.. it looks like the are putting in an additional lane for college traffic as well as painting new road markings

I'm fine with this, good idea... however....

The 2 vans and vehicle that is doing the line paiting all have Northern Registrations

Does this mean that the council have actually hired someone from the north to perform this work for them?

_Kaiser_

bob2oo7 wrote: »

Whats the story with road works at the Xerox junction in Dundalk.. it looks like the are putting in an additional lane for college traffic as well as painting new road markings

I'm fine with this, good idea... however....

The 2 vans and vehicle that is doing the line paiting all have Northern Registrations

Does this mean that the council have actually hired someone from the north to perform this work for them?

Most of the road works vehicles (especially those Motorway Maintenance vans/trucks) seem to be northern registered from what I've seen.

Atomic Pineapple

Maybe, maybe not, I used to work in a concrete floor company based in Slane, we had employee's from the North working for us and they would be in Northern registered vans but the company was set up and based in the Republic.

ardmacha

Does this mean that the council have actually hired someone from the north to perform this work for them?

Why should they not do this, exactly. Do you mean that they should have done the work themselves or do you mean that they should have illegally discriminated in who they appointed to do this?

jock101

Why not contractors wages are cheaper in the UK, compaired to down here!

ardmacha

Contractors wages sounds a bit sophisticated, this wasn't Balfour Beatty this is some guy and his brother in law from the general locality with a van.

jock101

Well, it is a border region area! Your going to get workers doing jobs on both sides of the border!

Who cares where they are from as long as the job gets done and done right.

Voodoomelon

A sign printing company in Newry has the exclusive contract for all Iarnrod Eireann signs in Ireland. Your man told me he put in his tender to make a bit of cash and he came up the cheapest by many thousands of euros. Wouldn't surprise me to see Northern companies doing jobs like this.

amacachi

Think that's good? It was either the local council or local chamber of commerce or similar had fliers printed around a year ago encouraging people to shop in Dundalk. They got them printed in the North. :pac:

I think they're just making the left turn into town wider, it's too tight for buses and I'd imagine HGVs as well.

amacachi

amacachi wrote: »

Think that's good? It was either the local council or local chamber of commerce or similar had fliers printed around a year ago encouraging people to shop in Dundalk. They got them printed in the North. :pac:

I remember that, all the moaning going on at the time about shopping up north and then this came out along with the "Shop in the Buttercrane, better value for your Euro" posters going up in the town

Voodoomelon

I drove by it today, just looks like theyre building a giant footpath!

coylemj

If it's a public contract (which this obviously is) and it's above a certain value it has to be advertised in the EU Journal but these guys might just have subscribed to www.etenders.gov.ie and spotted it.

The point someone made about higher wages here is valid, I worked for a multinational and we had our office building in D4 refurbished from top to bottom by a UK construction company, they underbid their Irish competitors and were still able to put their workers up in B & Bs and fly them home to see their OHs every so often and make a profit.