Dáil
‹ Order of Business Local contractors and water services
Summary
Mattie McGrath says high thresholds under the Water Services legislation exclude local contractors and asks the Government to intervene; the Ceann Comhairle rules the matter outside the Order of Business.
When the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 was announced, we were promised that there would be local employment and work for businesses. Nobody can seem to get any-----
Comment on this
It is part of the Act that local contractors would be employed.
Comment on this
They are now setting high thresholds that contractors cannot meet. That is Labour's way. I ask whether the Tánaiste will look after those people because they are unemployed businesspeople.