These workers will be required to deal with a new customs systems resulting from Brexit.
However, the minister insisted that the new staff will not be placed at or near the border with Northern Ireland, because the Government would not be developing infrastructure there.The minister said work on this scale has not happened in the economy for decades. Earlier this week, the chief executive of Dublin Port said that if there is a hard Brexit on 29 March, the number of lorries travelling through the port from outside the EU would increase by 800,000 a year.
Work is currently under way on new customs checkpoints in the port - the first to be built here in decades.
Probably all contraband smugglers? Have they been properly vetted RevenueIE gardainfo