The Irish Sub Contractors Association was established to address avery serious void in the Irish market place. The current economic circumstances served only to place in focus , and highlight more urgently how vulnerable, how unprotected and how appalling the terms and conditions which The Sub Contractors operated under in modern Ireland.

Successive Governments in this country have introduced legislation to cover every aspect and angle to employment equality of employment, pay and conditions, safety in the work place, etc., etc. Yet these same governments have continuously left the sub contractors totally unprotected like a beleaguered orphan in the business world.

This has to stop now! Changes must be introduced immediately. Against this background a number of sub contractors from all trade and general business enterprises held a series of meetings in Cork. Decent, hard working honourable people shared their experiences and case histories of various work place injustices were recorded. Sub contractors explained in graphic and painful detail how in many cases they where owed vast sums of money with no one to act on their behalf. Others spoke of being suicidal due to financial ruin. Speaker after speaker told the same story.

Eventually the mood of well placed anger changed to constructive thinking culmination in the birth of The Irish Sub Contractors Association – a nationwide organisation unified by a sense of justice and common purpose, to support, advise, liaise, and act on behalf of the sub contractor who joins the association from any part of The Republic of Ireland.

The Irish Sub Contractors Association will lobby both government and opposition parties to introduce legislation to finally protect the sub contractor.

These measures may include putting in place an insurance bonding system in the event of builders or developers going bust while contract work is in progress or completed. A legal and effective stage payment condition in the contract/materials paid for - once delivered to site. And the government to appoint a construction sector Ombudsman to liaise and between conflicting parties on sites or in the general work place.