Business leaders warn of workers shortage in NI under new UK immigration rules

The chief executive of Newry and Mourne Cooperative and Enterprise Agency (NMEA), Dr Conor Patterson has warned that crops will be not be harvested and patients will go without care because of the shortage of workers under proposed new immigration rules in the UK.

There is already a labour shortage in Northern Ireland with hundreds of vacancies in healthcare, hospitality, agriculture and manufacturing he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.