Skills blow ‘will mean no more Avivas’
That was just one of the warnings issued by leading construction, business and union figures as they banded together to demand the Government re-invigorate the economy by investing in infrastructural projects. They said such a policy shift would not only make the country more attractive to outside investors but would also create jobs and reinvigorate the economy.
As a first step they said the Government must commit to spending €5.5bn per year for the next five years on the public capital programme. That would mean spending 5% of gross domestic product in this area, an investment which, they insisted, would be money well spent.
