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A DOZEN PEOPLE are to be made redundant as Cork City Council’s contract with a clamping firm comes to an end tomorrow.
A spokesperson for APCOA parking told TheJournal.ie that the contract between the company and the council comes to an end on 4 January and will not be renewed. APCOA has operated a vehicle clamping service for the city authority since 2003 and said that 12 people would be made redundant as a direct consequence of the end to clamping.
The company said they wanted to thank the staff who had “worked dilligently” for the past eight years. It also said that it looked forward to “working again with the City Council in the near future”.
However, motorists in Cork city should be aware that parking restrictions will still be policed. The council intends to take the monitoring “back in house”, with local authority traffic wardens responsible for administering fines to non-compliant parkers. No-one from Cork City Council has yet been available to comment on exactly what measures it is putting in place to police traffic from tomorrow.
Eoin Weldon reported in the Cork Independent last month that the City Council was going to have to manage on €11m less in 2012 than it did in 2011. One of the cuts highlighted was the non-renewal of the clamping contract – something which will probably concern citizens less than the cuts to local authority housing and maintenance of local infrastructure.
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A bit of competition is good once it’s honest and there’s no jolleys, stroking, brown envelopes or trips to the red light district
Don’t care who builds it, once the ultimate cost is what was agreed at the start and it represents best value for money and can actually do everything that we need in an MRV.
@Peter: absolutely correct. The bigger ptoblen is managing to crew these ships given the pathetic funding of the navy and the army
. dont care who builds it but no the UK, when your out, your out.
@Spud Geshletter: let’s hope they don’t have the same stupid attitude as you, we will be broke overnight.
@Tipper Irie: How do you like a freezing cold and dark winter? 75% of our gas comes from Scotland!
@Tipper Irie: please explain??
@Spud Geshletter: …but they’re Scots not English.
This is gona be an interesting one. The Brits will probably bend over backwards for these kind of contracts now to prove Brexit works. Might mean a better price, but there will be a lot of pressure on the government from EU partners to not go with the Brits for this. Especially a defence contract. I’m sure there are plenty of other shipyards around Europe that could also build the ship. I wonder will the EU intervene to make sure that EU defense spending stays as much as possible within the EU. Which will be tough seen as the Brits have such a massive arms industry.
@bazhealy: We should source the ships with the EU Single Market and as Northern Ireland is still in the EU Single Market we should source the ships in Harland and Wolf in Belfast.
@Roger Bond: You’d be lucky to get a barge out of H&W.
@Roger Bond: hm no…
@Billybutcher: hm maybe, although it has been used recently mainly for service I read on 25/11 that H&W has been appointed as the prefered bidder to deliver three crucial support ships to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Who will staff it?? The Naval service is on it’s knees.
@Richard Griffin: We can recruit naval personnel from other countries like the Philippines or China.
@Roger Bond: Do people actually think we can do that?
And its also past time Ireland grew up and provided its own proper air defences and stop running to the RAF everytime an incident accurs because we dont have the capability,without a comprehensive radar tracking system anyone can invade our airspace at will and we have to depend on the Brits for information whats happening in our own country,the excuse usually given is because we are neutral sounds demeaning and ridiculous because we can even defend our own neutrality.
@Richard Mccarthy: I’m sure that there is a bit of back scratching going on with that arrangement.
Didn’t know the UK had any shipyards left.
@Ken Miles: they,’ve got s few ,who do you think built the new aircraft carriers?
@Ken Miles: You obvously are misinformed who do you think built the latest Ships for the Irish navy,yep the Brits did only problem now we can’t get the personel to crew them.
@Ken Miles: there is a famous ship yard only up the road in Belfast
@Kevin Carroll: Excellent point. At least we would keep the money on the island.
@Kevin Carroll: Yes there is. Tyneside shipyards closed to keep Belfast in work.
@Ken Miles: There is one just up the road in Belfast and it would be a kind gesture to get the ships built there like before.
As a member of the EU all contracts should be given to eu countries not a country outside eu
They’ve probably wat he’d the childrens hospital and locked their lips at the clown show.
Candy off a baby..
That’s easy then, Trieste in Italy it is, the only EU one of the top 10 largest shipbuilding companies, coming in @ #9.
We should be looking further afield for contracts like this..The best value for money can be found in China or South Korea..
@Roger Bond: Correctamundo, Asia all the way, I’d include Japan on that list.
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