Economic Policy
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-08
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Cathal Crowe (FF), Clare

On the topic of Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022, how does the Government propose to deal with the lack of housing, especially where workers are concerned? Foreign direct investment is flooding into Ireland. Companies are advertising jobs but are unable to recruit people because of a lack of housing in certain areas. Shannon town in County Clare is one. It is a constraint we never had heretofore, but suddenly the barrier to taking on employees is the lack of housing in the locality. Would the Taoiseach perhaps consider the practice of many years ago whereby larger companies, such as Guinness, Beamish and Crawford and Shannon Development in County Clare, were incentivised by the Government to build housing schemes for their employees? Would he consider that as another way of building housing stock and allowing these companies to come to Ireland and to have their employees living close to the factory or production line facility?

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Sitting date: 2023-03-08