FG pours scorn on jobs forecasts in capital spending plans

FINE GAEL has continued to pick apart the Government’s revised spending plans for the country’s infrastructure, by claiming it will create none of the promised jobs.

Its communications spokesman, Leo Varadkar, said jobs were being lost in the economy and the €39bn plan from now until 2016 would only partly plug the gap.

He said €6.5bn was being spent this year on capital projects, which would support 75,000 jobs, but in 2011 the figure would drop to €5.5bn.