Ireland needs 80,000 new workers to reach housing and infrastructure targets, ESRI says

Ireland needs 80,000 new workers to reach housing and infrastructure targets, ESRI says

Infrastructure shortcomings are creating a bottleneck in the delivery of new residential buildings.

ESRI warns achieving surge in workers needed for housing and NDP is 'inconceivable' - Business Plus

Ireland will need an extra 80,000 workers to build the houses needed and to complete the "enormously ambitious" National Development Plan at the same time, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has warned. Total employment is already expected to increase by 40,000 but the economy will need twice that number to deliver National Development Plan (NDP) projects. Those projects include the MetroLink to Dublin Airport, the Dart extension …