Coronavirus (COVID-19): Key Information For Construction Professionals in Ireland

At 9pm on St Patrick’s Day, the Taoiseach addressed the Irish nation in a manner the like of which is seen only once in a generation.

All businesses are struggling with balancing staff welfare and business continuity. At its core, for businesses, COVID-19 is an employee welfare and health and safety issue and this must guide the actions taken at this time.

However, for economic order to resume when this difficult time eases, businesses need to do everything they can now, to reduce impacts on their operational capability so that economic activity continues to be maximised.

Here Killian Dorney and Tara Cosgrove outline what construction professionals can do.