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2009

Job cuts mean vital engineering staff let go by Dublin City Council

Date Released: 27 Nov 2009

SIPTU has condemned the failure of Dublin City Council to maintain employment levels among engineers with direct responsibility for emergency planning, flood prevention and protection and environmental protection. Six graduate engineers are being let go next week, including the most highly qualified expert in Major Emergency Planning, because of the jobs freeze.If planned job cuts continue there will be a reduction of 20 per cent in the number of engineers by 2010. Six graduate engineers deemed to be temporary staff are the latest tranche affected. They will not have their contracts renewed by the Council next Monday. Contracts for two other graduate engineers will run out in April.

“The number of engineers in Dublin City Council has already been reduced significantly because of the moratorium”, SIPTU Organiser Maurice Hearne SIPTU Local Authority Professional Officers (LAPO) Branch Organiser said today. “This is placing a considerable strain on the provision of existing services. It is expected that the numbers of engineers in Dublin City Council will be reduced by forty, or approximately 20 per cent of the total, by the end of 2010. “Engineers are very angry about the loss of their graduate colleagues who are involved in essential engineering work. It is not known how, or even if, this work can continue to be done after the graduates are gone.

“One of the members concerned is just one of the 12 engineers in the State with an MA in Major Emergency Planning. It is a measure of the crudeness and stupidity of these book-balancing cuts that such necessary and experienced staff members are being lost to the detriment of the public interest."





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