Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the reason we ended up with so many voids was that the local authority staff was run down. There is no recruitment in the maintenance section of Dublin City Council. There are no apprenticeships, which we did have in the past. We are all talking about apprenticeships and getting people back into the workforce and producing the workforce. That was a big source of employment in the past. Dublin City Council need to be tackled on this.