Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion
Mr. Niall Gleeson:
The CIF supplies a lot of our construction staff so they have covered that point. On our own water services staff around the country, we have a challenge in that we are trying to attract the water services staff from the local authorities into Uisce Éireann at the moment. We will be going through that process over the next few years and it will give us an idea of what kind of workforce we need. With retirements and the age profile of existing staff, even if they come over there is going to be a wall of retirements in the next five years so we have to hire. We are looking at creating a water services apprenticeship. We know we need to have people in the communities working on those plants. That will continue in the future.
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