€1.3 million to build the Dáil's sweetshop

Dostoevsky

So, the Dáil sweetshop is now closing, having been opened in 2007 by Bertie the Bastard. No big deal. However, it cost €1.3 million to build that tiny smurf house. €1.3 million. A tiny sweetshop, tiny - this.

Leinster House sweet shop shuts

Somewhere deep in the smithy of my soul there are words for this... somewhere. Mostly, I feel ineffably nauseous.

Nodin

Holy Christ....Dostoevsky is stuck for words....

lkionm

Imagine all the penny jellies you could get for that

Jimoslimos

Ahhhhh! Misread the thread title as "€1.3 million to build the Dáil's SWEATSHOP"

Disappointed now, thought we might actually be getting some work out of those wasters.

It was located in the backarse of nowhere, too.

Nodin

Deleted User wrote: »

It was located in the backarse of nowhere, too.

....because of the glass walls, the heat meant that the chocolate therein would be goo on any day with a bit of sun, apparently.

Chucken

Dostoevsky wrote: »

So, the Dáil sweetshop is now closing, having been opened in 2007 by Bertie the Bastard. No big deal. However, it cost €1.3 million to build that tiny smurf house. €1.3 million. A tiny sweetshop, tiny - this.

Leinster House sweet shop shuts

Somewhere deep in the smithy of my soul there are words for this... somewhere. Mostly, I feel ineffably nauseous.

Are you giving out because it was closed or because it was opened in the first place?
If its the latter....well..stable doors and horses come to mind.

Micky Dolenz

Can't think of any sweet puns,

Sugar.

Chucken

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Can't think of any sweet puns,

Sugar.

Mmmmmm, sweet sweet puns....drool.

charlemont

Nodin wrote: »

....because of the glass walls, the heat meant that the chocolate therein would be goo on any day with a bit of sun, apparently.

Irish stupidity at it's best..

Marsden

Did the 1.3 mil include the sweets?

The Backwards Man

It takes Allsorts, doesn't it?

Boombastic

I'd say they're bitter about that


Why did the dail need a sweetshop in the first place? Aren't are politicians sweet enough?

looking_around

lkionm wrote: »

Imagine all the penny jellies you could get for that

2cents a jelly

you could get 650,000 ..no need to imagine

mickdw

I remember this when it was built. There has to be some corrupt dealings there as even in the boom the cost was out of line with what was acceptable even at that stage.
I am a construction engineer and I can see no valid reason for the costs.

Dostoevsky

Chucken wrote: »

Are you giving out because it was closed or because it was opened in the first place?

Its cost, clearly. It's no big deal that it's closed (the staff has been transferred to other jobs). That it cost 1.3 million to build a very small sweetshop defies belief on so many levels.

donegal_road

and they refused to release €9 million needed to keep wards open at Crumlin Children's Hospital in 2009.

mickdw

looking_around wrote: »

2cents a jelly

you could get 650,000 ..no need to imagine

You might want to check the maths there.

Staff Infection

But where will James Reilly buy his candy cigarettes now?

Sergeant

Losing money hand over fist since Cowen, O'Donoghue and Harney left.

Kintarō Hattori

Wow, how on earth could that have cost €1.3 million- that's just madness.

Boombastic

Sergeant wrote: »

Losing money hand over fist since Cowen, O'Donoghue and Harney left.

Surely Reilly made up for some of the shortfall?
Have profits in the bar dipped at all?

kupus

I wonder which friend of a friend of a friend got to build this one. Treasury holding maybe?

Chucken

Dostoevsky wrote: »

Its cost, clearly. It's no big deal that it's closed (the staff has been transferred to other jobs). That it cost 1.3 million to build a very small sweetshop defies belief on so many levels.

I totally agree with you but whats the point in talking about it now?

Nodin

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Wow, how on earth could that have cost €1.3 million-...............

Good question.....

Sergeant

Boombastic wrote: »

Surely Reilly made up for some of the shortfall?
Have profits in the bar dipped at all?

Reilly prefers burritos from Pablo Picante on Baggot Street. Doesn't have a sweet tooth.

jobeenfitz

Rightly so. Those men and women work hard and are more than entitled to their little comforts. I hope something lavish is built to replace it.

biko

Stands as a memory over how the fat cats weren't shy any expense, on themselves..

lintdrummer

mickdw wrote: »

You might want to check the maths there.

Indeed. So in new money one could have purchased 650,000,000 penny sweets. But by my calculations in punts one could have bought 1,028,822,000 penny sweets.
I think this is as good a demonstration as any of how much the nation has been taking it up Bournville road from our supreme overlords!

KeithM89

For that price, i assume thats just the glass elevator that takes you down to willy wonkas chocolate factory.

Boombastic

mickdw wrote: »

You might want to check the maths there.

It's leinster house maths

mickdw

lintdrummer wrote: »

Indeed. So in new money one could have purchased 650,000,000 penny sweets. But by my calculations in punts one could have bought 1,028,822,000 penny sweets.
I think this is as good a demonstration as any of how much the nation has been taking it up Bournville road from our supreme overlords!

With the standard of maths in this thread, is no wonder the government think they can swindle money left right and centre.
2c per sweet means 50 sweet to the euro. 1.3 million x 50 = 65, 000, 000 sweets.

Celly Smunt

The really sad part of this is,for the price of that we could've had another school in a community or even better,made a lot of repairs on schools where prefabs had to/and still do be used.

Grayson

lintdrummer wrote: »

Indeed. So in new money one could have purchased 650,000,000 penny sweets. But by my calculations in punts one could have bought 1,028,822,000 penny sweets.
I think this is as good a demonstration as any of how much the nation has been taking it up Bournville road from our supreme overlords!

If your average penny sweet is 1cmX1cm then there are 10,000 in a metre squared.

That means that you could get 65,000 square metres of penny sweets from the construction cost.

If you layer it, you could get nearly 10,000 square metres of sweets that are 6 cm thick.

You could have built the place with a fraction of that and had an actual Sweet shop.

I think I'm over thinking this.

Edit: just saw mickdw's reply. So divide my result by 10

bgrizzley

Scylla wrote: »

For that price, i assume thats just the glass elevator that takes you down to willy wonkas chocolate factory.

one thing is for sure, at 1.3 million someone found The Golden Ticket...

OCorcrainn

And people want to vote these chumps back in.

RiverOfLove

What the fcuk did they need a sweet shop for?

blackbullet

well ill half to say for a shop that costs that much willie wonka would be embaresed.

RiverOfLove

mickdw wrote: »

I remember this when it was built. There has to be some corrupt dealings there as even in the boom the cost was out of line with what was acceptable even at that stage.
I am a construction engineer and I can see no valid reason for the costs.

This was my first thought on it too. A sweetshop, a small one, for 1.3 million. Its very wrong. Back in 2007, you could get 2 or 3 houses for that money depending, I suppose depending on area.

Didn't bertie refurbish his office for another scandalous amount?

I am pie

Snickering at the general public behind our backs, as we rolo-over and let them have their milky way with our money.

RobbingBandit

RiverOfLove wrote: »

What the fcuk did they need a sweet shop for?

Mary Harney would be my guess, looked like a fudge gobbler.

hfallada

In fairness €1.3 million is what we add to the national debt every hour because the finances are in ****. Or it could get you about 2.5 consultants for the year.

OU812

Lads it work the same way as the US army. You don't really think they buy M14s at $10000 a piece either?

They cost 20% of that and the rest goes in a slush fund.

looking_around

mickdw wrote: »

You might want to check the maths there.

lol
yeah..I was tired

I was doing 1.3/2
when it's 1.3/0.02 XD

65 million sweets

that in a pool would be great!

My name is URL

Why are they closing it down? Wasn't it being run by charity volunteers?

donegal_road

Grayson wrote: »

If your average penny sweet is 1cmX1cm then there are 10,000 in a metre squared.

That means that you could get 65,000 square metres of penny sweets from the construction cost.

If you layer it, you could get nearly 10,000 square metres of sweets that are 6 cm thick.

You could have built the place with a fraction of that and had an actual Sweet shop.

I think I'm over thinking this.

Edit: just saw mickdw's reply. So divide my result by 10

I heard a guy on the radio yesterday, who has figured out that it would take €58 million in €50 notes to cover the grass surface of Croake Park..

and it would take 17 Croake Parks to make €1 billion..

and 500 Croake Parks to cover the Anglo Irish Bank debt. (30 x 17 = 510)

kuntboy

Always thought it was quite appropriate for Ireland. A fu*kin SWEET SHOP, with glass walls, in full view to media and tourists, at the front gate of our National Parliament. Farcical, humiliating, unbelievable, absolutely symbolic of our government (and it's public sector) and its general attitude to us and the world.

What other country on earth would do that? Even a 3rd world sh*t-hole would have more dignity.

flas

kuntboy wrote: »

Always thought it was quite appropriate for Ireland. A fu*kin SWEET SHOP, with glass walls, in full view to media and tourists, at the front gate of our National Parliament. Farcical, humiliating, unbelievable, absolutely symbolic of our government (and it's public sector) and its general attitude to us and the world.

What other country on earth would do that? Even a 3rd world sh*t-hole would have more dignity.

I can just imagine it now,some foreign president gettin greeted outside leinster house,enda kenny turning around to him and going "I'm headin inta the shop,want anything lads!?" as he jogs into the shop,finishing his sentence mid jog,talking over his shoulder to the president, "even a star bar or frodo,ya sure?".