Leinster House Bicycle Shed

So we have a bicycle shelter that doesn't protect bicycles from the elements at a cost of 336,000 euro and a

Children's Hospital where a helicopter with dangerously ill children cannot land at 6 billion euro.

Someone is responsible for these debacles and should be held accountable for them.

6 billion have you a source for that?

2.24 as of last spring

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/f85c9-government-approves-increases-to-the-capital-and-current-budget-sanctions-for-the-new-childrens-hospital-project-and-programme/#:~:text=The%20government%20has%20today%20approved,budget%20was%20%E2%82%AC1.73%20billion).

The justified outrage will rumble on for a while

An inquiry/oireachtas hearing will be held & somebody will be asked a few hard questions, seg way to prime time debate & token soundbites from a few back benches & opposition TD's.

Some other news story will sweep in & this will fall down the pecking order & fade into the background.

We've been here recently with RTE bail out & children's hospital & as a nation of people we really don't give a pro or reactive **** to this sorta stuff, we'll all join the tut tut brigade, blame the gubberment or talk to Joe about it.

All of us should be contacting our elected representatives on this to the degree that their phones are on fire, inboxes are full, a line of appointments at constituency offices

As a nation (myself included) we don't demand answers enough...whatever it is in us we'll bitch amongst ourselves and

"Shure look, isn't that it"

We don't do accountability

Dee Forbes

I rank homelessness much higher and more important societal issue than rich TDs keeping their bikes dry, especially when there is aparently already covered parking nearby for them

We spent 30 million on a 2km bike lane and a third of a million on a bike shed

All while citizens these politicians meant to represent remain homeless

Your “It is perfectly reasonable to want sheltered bike parking” comment is flippant and reeks of entitlement in light of more important issues this country faces, if any politician uses same line of argument you have made they would be politically crushed

For most of the history of this state keeping your bike in the rain was considered “sensible”

Feeling entitled to covered bike parking while being in top 5 percentile of earners is not “sensible” I won’t post the word that I would use to describe this

Why do so many assume ineptitude when it comes to matters like this and not something more sinister?

If you were auditing the accounts of a department in a company and saw they billed a delivery for 10 pizzas for a retirement event which you might ballpark the figure at around €200 but see they charged the company 30 times that amount for €6000 what would you think was going on there?

Because spending €600 for a basic pizza is on a scale of what's happened here relative to standard industry costs and installation. How could anyone believe someone approved and signed off on a €600 pizza had good and honest intentions when even a child would realise something wasn't quite right with that number?

Typo

There is no charging facility for e-bikes or e-scooters, this is just a basic bicycle shed.

Its not even fit for purpose, it does not even protect the bicycles from the elements.

Sensori Facilities Management Ltd do a lot of contract work in Leinster house.

Someone in the O.P.W. needs to resign over this, its the cost of a house and we are in the middle of a housing crisis.

Took this photo this morning , not one bicycle in use or parked up. Madness.

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I’ll just leave this here -

OPW and Resign your having a laugh. How there has not been a major investigation into how they do their business is unbelievable.

I will take another photo on the 18th of September. Its such an embarrassment for the OPW and a waste of taxpayers money imo.