Swann seeks Stormont support for building jobs

By The Newsroom
Published 8th Mar 2012, 09:31 BST
NORTH Antrim UUP MLA Robin Swann has challenged the power-sharing Executive to implement a rescue package for the Province’s construction industry by ensuring as many contracts as possible go to Northern Ireland companies.

He issued the challenge in the wake of one of Ballymena’s leading employers - construction company the Patton Group - confirmed it was shedding around 50 jobs.

Assemblyman Swann said: “While I fully understand there is a terrible economic downturn which has hit the construction industry in our Province very hard. These jobs losses are all the more heart-breaking as Patton is a family business which celebrates its centenary this year.

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