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IRISH WATER IS due to reduce its number of employees by 1,200 over the next six years.
Three hundred jobs were cut since last year, making the number 1,500 in total.
A spokesperson for the utility said the measure is part of a larger business plan agreed when Irish Water was set up.
The company is hoping to save €1.1 billion in “operational savings” by 2021.
Business plan
Ervia, its parent company, published its business plan for the utility today, saying that it will “deliver a quality service to customers while addressing the constrained funding model and fragmented service delivery that has had such a damaging effect on Ireland’s water infrastructure over many decades”.
At a meeting today, Ervia’s chief executive Michael McNicholas said that by 2021 the plan commits to:
As well as the job cuts, the €1.1 billion will be saved through reducing the cost of repairs and maintenance, energy, contracting and overheads.
The spokesperson said most of the 1,500 jobs will become vacant through retirement and vacant roles not being filled.
However, they added that a voluntary redundancy scheme is a possibility.
The spokesperson noted that the utility’s seven year plan, due to be unveiled today, for “transformation of the water sector” will include a €5.5 billion investment.
Fianna Fáil’s environment spokesperson Barry Cowen TD criticised the plan and the loss of jobs, saying “we need proper investment in our water network”.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
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Mcdonalds is always there for me too. Unfortunately for my waist!!
I hate McDonald’s and yet I find their double cheeseburgers annoyingly addictive…
#Jimmy
Mar tá siad lá le siúrce agus cimicí chun go mbeidh tú tugtha dóibh.
Gaeltan,
Perché si rispondere a un commento in una lingua diversa ? è rozzo
Is maith liom sceallóga agus ispíní.
Eh?
Breaking News: James Franco worked in McDonald’s. Bad day at the office Journal?
I know the feeling James, mc Donald’s has often taken me out of a hole too.
Ironic, mackers has taken the hole out of me more than once.
Silly boy.
To be fair it reads a bit like james got a few dollars for reading that script!
McDonald’s where even the salads are unhealthy.
Pure manure!!
Terrible actor, brutal Director and an even worse artist… one guy that should have never given up the day job…
What have you done lately?
Let’s put this to bed once and for all…Big Mac or Whopper??
Neither.
Big Mac on its own or a Whopper if you whack a few BK onion rings into it! Now thats me darza!!
The double cheeseburger for €2
Often emptied my hole!!
Caroline did?
She always was dirty.
Ask the lads…..
Yeah, Cal is well known………
A “full Irish breakfast” is far more dangerous to your waistline than anything served up in McDonalds.
Anyway,why pick on McDonalds?
ALL restaurants serve up fattening foods.
Ever wondered what’s in that “Nouveau Cusine” they serve up in upmarket restaurants?
At least McDonalds is spotlessly clean and hygienic.
Unlike a lot of other “greasy spoon” dumps you see on the high street.
And a LOT cleaner and hygienic than most Irish kitchens I have seen.
McDonalds sells happiness. I’d have it every other month but never as my main meal of the day.
Large chicken legend meal, salsa, no bacon, with coke. That’s the one and only meal I eat at McDonalds and I’d happily eat it everyday if I could get away with it. Add chicken nuggets and its €10 exactly.
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