{"id":41444,"date":"2024-11-12T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41444"},"modified":"2024-11-11T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:32:55","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-ireland-needs-80000-more-workers-to-fix-roads-homes-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41444","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the global Doorstep\u2019: Ireland needs 80,000 more workers to fix roads, homes and power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/House_icon_green.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/House_icon_green.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26974\" style=\"width:162px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><sub><em>image for illustration<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New research on Ireland\u2019s infrastructure demands concludes that almost 80K more construction workers are needed to address significant shortfalls in housing, health, transport and electricity there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Irish Independent<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Ireland\u2019s infrastructure is reckoned to be 25pc lower per person than the average for a high-income European country\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report says one of the biggest barriers to delivering infrastructural projects has been the planning system, because its \u201cslow and unpredictable nature\u201d increases costs and delays\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 a \u2018key issue\u2019 for addressing the infrastructure deficit is productivity levels in the construction sector, which are low by international standards\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another reason\u2026 is \u2026 most Irish construction firms are quite small\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Ireland has been slow to use modern construction methods, even though they require at least 70pc less labour, and reduce costs by an estimated 20-40pc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/ireland-needs-80000-more-workers-to-fix-roads-homes-and-power\/a1231811073.html\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration New research on Ireland\u2019s infrastructure demands concludes that almost 80K more construction workers are needed to address significant shortfalls in housing, health, transport and electricity there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,23,9,11,116,22],"class_list":["post-41444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-expertise","tag-government","tag-housing","tag-infrastructure","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41445,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444\/revisions\/41445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}