asked the Minister for Lands if he is prepared to make arrangements for the employment of additional workers by the forestry division, in the Iland Wood, Newmarket, County Cork.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Cork Forestry Workers.
The forestry division have at the moment a full complement of men at work at Iland Wood and the taking on of additional men would result in the earlier termination of the work and the consequent laying off of the whole lot.
Is the Minister aware that there are some unemployed men in that district? Would it not be possible for the forestry division to make a survey and find out whether additional men could not be employed in this wood?
There is not a lot of work to be done there. At the present time we have the maximum number of men employed, and the advice that I have been given is that, if we were to take on additional men, the work would be finished in five or six weeks' time. If the number of men employed were doubled that would mean that, in a short period, all the men employed there would be knocked off.
Is the Minister aware that there is sufficient work in that wood for 100 men for the next ten years?
Why, then, do you not vote money for it?