Minister’s message to Irish construction workers abroad: ‘Ireland needs you to help us build homes’

The campaign will use advertising targeted at people working in construction overseas.

IRISH CONSTRUCTION WORKERS living abroad are to be encouraged to come home and help build homes.

Higher Education Minister Simon Harris is rolling out an outreach campaign to workers in cities such as London, New York and Sydney, telling people working in construction that there are well-paid jobs available in Ireland.

The campaign will use advertising targeted at people working in construction overseas.

“We want to send a message abroad, we want to send a message to the Irish people who may have left because there weren’t jobs in construction in the past, there weren’t jobs when the economy crashed, that Ireland is a very different place now, that Ireland needs you to come home, Ireland needs you to help us build homes,” said Harris.

If you wish to come home, there are jobs here, well-paid, reliable jobs, and huge access to skills and education and training at a level not seen before.
“We need your help. So the purpose of this campaign is to spread the word to Irish people abroad, that if you’re working in construction, there’s huge opportunities here in Ireland and so please consider coming home and helping out,” he added.

‘We need you’
A report recently commissioned by his department showed that Ireland will need 50,000 more people to work in construction in the next decade.

To reach those sorts of numbers, the minister said there is a need to come at it from all angles.

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