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Tue 12 Dec 2008Government proposal to encourage working from home
THOUSANDS OF office workers are to be encouraged to begin working from home under the Government's Sustainable Travel and Transport Action Plan, which will be completed early in 2009.
Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey is to make "e-working" one of the cornerstones of his plan, the aim of which is to dramatically reduce what he says are the unsustainably high volume of commute journeys by car each day. Greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector are now 165 per cent higher than the 1990 levels.
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