The latest crane watch figures have highlighted the scale of the Urban/Rural divide.
New figures show there are 123 cranes in Dublin while there are 11 times less than that outside of the capital.
In Cork, seven can be seen and there are two each in Limerick and Galway.
Director General of The Construction Industry Federation of Ireland, Tom Parlon, says the work needs to be spread out evenly:
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