Workers will be paid to move to rural towns in bold new plan to decentralise Ireland

The major new strategy being launched online today (March 29, 2021) will encourage workers to relocate from Ireland's cities to rural areas. See links at the foot of this article. File picture

Workers are to be offered sweeteners potentially worth thousands of euro to relocate from big cities to rural towns.

While a large majority of workers are already working from home because of Covid-19, the 'Our Rural Future' plan, to be unveiled by the Government later today, will also see a major “de-centralisation” of more than 68,000 public workers (20%) from main offices on a permanent basis by the end of the year.