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Irish Water - who will staff it?

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    #32
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Local authority outdoor staff may well be transferred to other outdoor work as those local authorities have been hit with an embargo for 6 years or so at this stage. Their current employers will find other uses for them I'm sure.

    Based on the ESB Network renewal gangs I came across that probably means Irish Water will deploy clueless yellowpack contractors who know where nothing is located and probably won't even speak English half the time. Ugh. :(


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    antoobrien
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    It appears that the metering programme will not be done by LA staff as the minister had apparently announced that at least 1/4 of the jobs will be go to either the long term unemployed, graduates or local small businesses.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/graduates-and-long-term-unemployed-to-take-25-of-water-metering-jobs-586003.html
    At least a quarter of the 1,600 jobs created by Irish Water's domestic water metering programme will be filled by graduates, the long-term unemployed and people from small, local businesses.

    The metering programme starts in July and will run until September 2016, during which time more than one million meters will be installed in homes across the country.


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