Midlands communties ‘need honesty’ over peat-industry exit

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Workers losing jobs at Bord na Móna and ESB power plants are not being offered pathway to future, Dáil committee told

It opened its voluntary redundancy programme last year, and close to 500 people will have exited by the end of 2019, she confirmed. “As a large employer in a rural region, the closure of 21 bogs across the region is deeply felt, both directly and indirectly.”

It was initially believed there would a 15-year transition period up to 2030. “That has been reduced to 13 months. That is a challenge,” she admitted The measures announced in the budget, must be supported and reinforced in the years ahead “and we as a region would ask that the unique challenge faced by the midlands in transitioning to a low-carbon economy is very much to the fore as negotiations commence on the EU budget post 2020,” she said.underlined the need for honesty with communities and measures to quickly address skills deficits as the local economy changes “from brown to green”.

 

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