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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 16 Feb 1984

Vol. 348 No. 1

Written Answers. - OPW Employees Lay-off.

334.

asked the Minister for Finance if he proposes to make 250 employees of the Office of Public Works redundant and to curtail drainage works being carried out by the office throughout the country.

Because of the need to restrict expenditure in the public sector and to ensure that the financial allocation for arterial drainage in 1984 is not exceeded and having regard to the advanced stage of the schemes in progress, it is necessary to lay-off about 230 men on these schemes. The lay-off of these workers will have the effect of reducing the works programme for 1984 through the postponement of works which might otherwise have been done this year.

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