Leinster House Bicycle Shed

I can't see how that is relevant, unless the price included extensive ground works and a specific Irish Granite Base and your Dads house is a protected building?

I never said anything like that read back what I posted. I simply said that in my experience people will simply not pay a higher cost of a project/build/service once its finished from what was quoted without some kind of explanation/audit or valid reason why the cost is different and that if the cost is too much and the the Project/build/service is completed without communication with the customer/client more times than not in my experience the customer/client wont pay for something that is costing 4 times more. As I say people on here will make up their own mind on how things are you have your experience and I have mine. I have been dealing with SMEs and trust me the room to pay 4 times for the price of a certain service/project is simply not there. Your either working with the MNCs or/and the Public sector.

All of this isn't even a storm in a teacup compared with all the other wastes of taxpayers money FFFG have squandered over the last number of years…

And the below isn't from RTE news or the Irish Times/Independent.. it's from Waterford Whispers!

If such a small sum of money, relatively speaking, wasted by the Irish State angers you so, then the following should completely and irrevocably boil your piss:

€19 million was allocated to Children’s Health Ireland to be used to address scoliosis surgery waiting lists. This money was misappropriated and spent on things other than ending children’s suffering and immense pain.

This week a whistleblower revealed €1.1bn has been lost in social welfare overpayments in a decade.

€158m has been spent on the Metrolink project since 2023 despite no actual construction taking place.

In 2022, the government failed to spend 25% (€1 billion) of its social housing budget in the middle of a housing crisis.

If Ireland remains on its current trajectory on climate targets it will face fines of at least €8.2bn after 2030.

In 2022, local councils only bothered to collect €138,335 of the €9.6 million they were owed by land hoarders in vacant site levies, and 13 of 31 local authorities didn’t even issue demands for vacant site levies to be paid.

BAM, builders of the National Children’s Hospital recently asked for an additional €107mn, bringing the total cost of construction to over €2.3 billion. Once you take a sedative to calm your fury Taoiseach, you might consider confronting whoever was Minister for Health at the time construction began.

The coalition government punished state broadcaster RTÉ for its mismanagement; concealed payments, €2.2 million on a musical, forcing PAYE employees to be freelance contractors, with €725 million funding.

In 2002, then Min for Education Michael Woods signed an agreement with 18 Irish religious orders involved in child sex-abuse scandals limiting their compensation liability to victims to only €128 million. This compensation scheme is estimated to have cost the Irish government €1.35 billion. Something to chew over Taoiseach as you consider news of an inquiry identifying 2,400 cases of sexual abuse in 308 schools run by religious orders.

Yes you could but it's apples and oranges. This is a historical building/campus and this covering looks to be a competent custom solution that looks very well. People who think you could get this done for anywhere near 100k are off their rocker. Also off their rocker are the people suggesting to plonk down a 10k plastic shed in front of such an important building. Whether it's good value for money is a different question, but I've no doubt that the costs are appropriate for what's been built.

So you can’t explain how your view should be applied to the scenario I provided and certainly can’t show how your “conversation” abilities would keep the job at initial quote. You are blindly angry about the shed and not understanding what I have said.

So you have no experience working with large organisations and the difficulties in pinpointing waste and costs. You are saying that because you don’t have such experience you don’t understand how costs can increase. An explanation has been provided but you want to say because it can’t happen in your sector it shouldn’t happen elsewhere.
You seem to think because I do have experience in large organisations my experience is less relevant than yours because you don’t have experience. Very weird logic. There are totally different considerations and costs with large organisations that cause issues.
Again you never solved the scenario I gave. Who is to blame and how do you stop. Not doing the work is not an option

Once Conor McGregor is elected it will be all sorted! :-D

https://m.sundayworld.com/showbiz/celebrity/conor-mcgregor-body-slams-government-wally-who-approved-336k-bike-shed/a1290523738.html

No better man to stamp something out!

Break a leg, Conzo.

How dare you assume my gender. I'm a non-binary entity.

I wonder how they ever got on with the printer that wouldn't fit in the room it was supposed to go in. Would it fit in the "bike shed" ?

Maybe they actually built 3 sheds and some people came along and insisted the design was wrong and needed to be changed. Nobody here knows what happened yet and are casting blame all over. So many variables but don’t be so sure that an individual is the cause. Maybe the security reasons are sound and it designed to withstand bombs or had to be reworked because of such dangers.
i don’t know and you don’t know but it is clear given an example of how prices can rise you couldn’t say who should be held responsible

Can't believe there's people actually trying to defend the cost.... the price of house to build a bike shed roof for 18 bikes... there is no excuse. And using fancy or exotic materials while the country is in massive debt with all the issues we have... it speaks volumes.