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Leinster House Bicycle Shed

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    the waste of money in county councils and opw must be unbelievable. It’s just name your price kinda stuff. And no accountability.
    €18600 per bike 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,344 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    20k per bike to park your bike in the open air, nothing to see here, sounds legit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,300 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    Anyone doing work for government or any state owned entity can basically write their own cheque. No one cares. There is zero accountability



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,493 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    It looks like it was fabricated off site.

    It'll be interesting to see the full price breakdown.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,565 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Our inept government is exceptional at wasting the US MNC tax windfall that we have. It's great that this windfall will last forever and ever.

    No wonder they lost complete control on the Children's hospital.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭beachhead


    If it's taxpayers money then no expense will be spared.OPW could not care less and politicos even less.The more money spent to house their E3,000 bikes the better



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,961 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I wonder how much of that was spent on solicitors to write a watertight planning application.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭beachhead


    I think that was mentioned in consultant fees?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭geographica


    the OPW are the greatest wasters in Ireland and don’t have to account to anyone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭DarkJager21


    I think as it's taxpayers money we are fully entitled to a breakdown of the costs involved in this wannabe smoking shelter. Every single cent accounted for - surely not too much to ask given the cost of it?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭geographica


    We’ll have to wait to see, Ken Foxe squeezed this



  • Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭Soc_Alt


    One public funding is in the mix, everyone is involved in a massive scam



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭JP 1800


    There you go lads one for 12k (VAT included in that price). Not as aesthetically complex but functional. OPW can send my 10K consultancy check in the post.

    https://www.pittman.ie/products/brooklyn-bike-shelter?variant=44519797096739



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭StrawbsM


    These would have been more economical



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    It looks like about 30k.

    *Disposal of dug out material.

    *A few metres of concrete

    *18 bike stands

    *8 prefabricated columns with a cantilevered section welded to carry roof.

    *Glazing or perspex sheeting on top and back.

    It would have taken maybe a day's work for 2 men to dig out ground and remove off-site.

    A few days of skilled work for maybe 3-4 men, digger/teleporter on site.

    I'm struggling(and I'm no QS) to get north of €30k, say €50k because it's Dublin and €10k for oversight and sign off.

    What was the other €275k for?

    I'd love to see the QS's paperwork



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭beachhead


    I don't see any Dail or Seanad crests on that shelter so add e100,000 plus fees



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭nachouser


    5 of these yokes would do the same job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭POBox19


    It’s all Eamon Ryan’s fault, he could’ve just taken his bike into the office.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,743 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    😅🤦🏻‍♂️ it’s this sort of crap continually happening that basically makes me think of my long term future away from this country because it’s really turning into an absolute basket case of a place ….and dangerously so.

    Nice for anyone reading this on a hospital waiting list for a year with a condition requiring intervention, or waiting an hour for a Garda car following a break in or any one of the multitude of public services getting less efficiently attainable for citizens …… at least cyclists to and from Leinster House will have dry arses though, brilliant.

    Bicycle seat cover in Halfords….waterproof, costs a tenner. But €335,000 of our money 🤪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭mobby


    This 100%. Never any questions asked do things their way and that5s it. As always this will just disappear and be forgotten.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭boetstark


    How embarrassing will it be when the IMF are in again to sort this s#it out. It is immoral the way this government are spending public money.

    It's 2008 all over again except this time the public debt is over 230 billion and your average joe is up to their necks in personal debt.

    Thank God I don't intend being here when the " we are the wealthiest country in the world " comes crashing down. Unfortunately.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,322 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Wonder will they have a red carpet ribbon cutting ceremony to open it, get in outside caterers, champagne on arrival etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭Raichų


    this really isn’t acceptable at all. The attitude of them as well according to the indo

    Asked about the costs involved, a spokeswoman for the OPW said: “The bicycle shelter is a new structure located within the setting of Leinster House, a protected structure of national importance.

    “In response to the character of the historic setting a well-designed structure with an appropriate use of high-quality materials and finish were required.”

    it’s a flipping bike shelter…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭howiya


    You could apply this to any line of government spending but there was a news item on Friday about them cutting the amount they reimburse people who are travelling up north for cataract surgery.

    Bad enough they can't get it done locally.

    You'd get a fair few cataract operations done for the price of this bike shed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    "The work ... upgrade ... core function of OPW ... does not require a business case"

    The absolute arrogance of this statement is hard to take. Yet there was a headline in one of yesterday's papers to the effect that two-thirds of voters want this government to continue?

    Is it me, or is there something amiss?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭Randycove


    how the **** can they even begin to think that is justified.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭extra-ordinary_


    Just as a comparison, it basically looks to be about the length of 3 or 4 of these with a few 'hoops' set into concrete -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,072 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    The people benefitting from the scams are hardly going to want things to change.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,692 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/bill-of-335000-for-shelter-to-store-18-bikes-at-leinster-house-incredibly-expensive-eamon-ryan-says/a1502076818.html

    "Asked for a copy of the scoping documents involved in the work, the Office of Public Works refused to provide them.

    It said these had been prepared as part of a planning application and could not be released for “security reasons”."



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,887 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Is there a secret bunker underneath?

    They could have put one in for that price.

    Otherwise what possible security reaskn could there be... the security of someone's job and cushy contracts more like.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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