Restrictions on employing foreigners

Construction companies will be restricted from employing foreigners on several new motorway projects that are expected to create 10,000 jobs.

The new routes and motorways that will be benefit from the stimulus package will be in Galway, Wexford and Waterford while there were also promises yesterday that further rail and road projects would still go ahead.

Leo Varadkar, the transport minister, admitted that companies could not be stopped from bringing in foreign workers but that firms may be pressured into employing certain numbers of Irish workers on projects.