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AN Ennis builder claims that he faces bankruptcy if €60,000 owed to him for his work on a Kilrush de- velopment is not paid.
Joseph Canavan joined pickets at the site of a new nursing home on the Killimer Road in Kilrush last Wednesday and Thursday following the failure of main contractor Site- line Construction to pay more than €100,000 in arrears owed to sub- contractors.
Mr Canavan, who employs 14 peo- ple at the site, claims not to have been paid since October of last year despite continuing to work and pay his own staff until last week.
According to union officials, a number of other sub-contractors are also owed sizeable sums with one painting contractor owed €46,000.
“T’m owed about €60,000 at the moment all told – I’d be one of the main sub-contractors here on the site.
“T would have been employing 13 or 14 people here during the con- struction as there was a big rush on to get the job finished,” said Mr Ca- navan.
“My agreement was that we would get paid at the end of every month. I
was paid at the end of the first month but then for the second month the cheque was two weeks late. I got that cheque eventually but the next month the cheque bounced.
“IT was paid with a bank draft in October but we have not been paid in the seven months since then. It’s a huge pressure on us here. I have paid all of my lads up to date, and I sup- plied all the metal studs and the grid ceiling here and all of that had to be ey nem oe
“I have tried to contact Siteline Construction a number of times and he won’t answer his phone to me.”