Job cuts likely in Department of Infrastructure

Thu, 15 May 2014

Laurence Skelly MHK

Job cuts within the Department of Infrastructure will be a last resort but cannot be ruled out.

The department needs to find savings of £5 million - half of the total amount government needs to save in the next financial year.

The workforce has been told it needs to be slimmed down with a number of senior management positions already axed.

Minister Laurence Skelly says he's hopeful some of the reductions will come from people retiring or leaving voluntarily: