{"id":346,"date":"2016-11-28T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/?p=346"},"modified":"2016-11-28T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T15:12:00","slug":"irelands-leading-publicans-call-government-support-drive-bring-emigrants-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/irelands-leading-publicans-call-government-support-drive-bring-emigrants-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s leading Publicans call for Government to support drive to bring emigrants home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the country&#8217;s leading Publicans has called for Government support for initiatives to bring home Irish workers\u00a0 home for good.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Fitzgerald whose group runs 20 pubs and 2 hotels employing 950 people mostly in the Dublin area including heritage pubs Kehoes and The Stag&#8217;s \u00a0Head ( recently voted pub of the year ) has said &#8221; I would like to see a signal going out to entice them home &#8230;.a lot of really good staff have emigrated &#8211; we were expecting them back but they are not coming back &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fitzgerald call follows similar calls in a number of key sectors including Construction, Phara,Healthcare and Hospitality .<\/p>\n<p>Back 4 Good have submitted detailed proposals to Government on how to attract home these workers including a comprehensive action plan incorporating staff within Government Departments engaging in placement of Back 4 Good registrants on a county by county basis .<\/p>\n<p>Back 4 Good the key initiative in his space has seen a surge in registrations online in the 4 weeks that the initiative has gone live with over 25,000 people expressing an interest in returning home .<\/p>\n<p>The Back 4 Good county strategy which aims to bring people home \u00a0to their own town, village or city is \u00a0a winner with huge interest from returnees .<\/p>\n<p>Ireland needs to move fast skills shortages are acute and some businesses in the Hospitality sector can&#8217;t open additional restaurants or extra accommodation due to a shortage of skilled workers .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the country&#8217;s leading Publicans has called for Government support for initiatives to bring home Irish workers\u00a0 home for good. Louis Fitzgerald whose group runs 20 pubs and 2 hotels employing 950 people mostly in the Dublin area including heritage pubs Kehoes and The Stag&#8217;s \u00a0Head ( recently voted pub of the year ) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}