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  • #32
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Pat Kenny's human face masks: few thousand, plus the effects team to hide his big lizard head.


  • #33
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭kincsem


    TheTorment wrote: »
    About half of the 750 odd Quangos that this country has.....

    ....each with a CEO on fat salaries/pensions etc
    2,600+ quangos. Great bunch of lads.


  • #34
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    http://www.herald.ie/news/those-mindblowing-expenses-and-where-they-all-went-1906311.html

    As the curtain comes down on John O'Donoghue's tenure as Ceann Comhairle, the actual cost to taxpayers for the curtains in his office was more than €11,000.

    Mr O'Donoghue has been criticised for the excessive spending when it came to furnishing his office.

    The Ceann Comhairle forked out almost €30,000 on carpets for his office, while the cost of redecorating the toilets for him and his staff came to more than €58,000.

    And whatever about the future of his Dail seat, his office chair cost taxpayers a staggering €1,058.

    All these trappings of office were itemised in figures released by the Office of Public Works.

    The figures show that more than €100,000 was spent on renovating and furnishing the Ceann Comhairle's office two years ago.

    For some reason that stuck in my craw more than most of the overspend by public figures - perhaps it was because it was amounts that I could imagine rather than those millions and millions that have disappeared over the years.


  • #35
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    up for anything wrote: »
    For some reason that stuck in my craw more than most of the overspend by public figures - perhaps it was because it was amounts that I could imagine rather than those millions and millions that have disappeared over the years.

    Curtains from France no less, couldn't get the quality in Ireland:rolleyes:


  • #36
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    up for anything wrote: »
    For some reason that stuck in my craw more than most of the overspend by public figures - perhaps it was because it was amounts that I could imagine rather than those millions and millions that have disappeared over the years.

    Those ones annoy me because the person doing the spending knows how much an office chair and a set of curtains costs.
    When it comes to consultants fees, I would tell them where to go if they asked for more than €50 per hour, but in reality its normal to pay thousands to consultants.


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  • #37
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Curtains from France no less, couldn't get the quality in Ireland:rolleyes:

    At that price he could set up a company to make bespoke curtains, employing 3 people!


  • #38
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    At that price he could set up a company to make bespoke curtains, employing 3 people!

    And the material woven to his specification:pac:


  • #39
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Samba wrote: »
    The spire of Dublin, aka the monument of sh1te. Take it down and sell it for scrap metal!

    I was almost going to have a good moan about how the health system was neglected all those years, yet they probably would have squandered the funds anyway. :rolleyes:

    They should move it to lower abbey street - a nice big, landmark, symbolic syringe ;)


  • #40
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    Was metro north dropped?? Why?


    Not sure, heard some radio show mention something about an "economic downturn" there a while ago.


  • #41
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Metro north planning - C.€120million


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  • #42
    sheikhnguyen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭sheikhnguyen


    srsly78 wrote: »
    Have you ever considered that maybe they were for use by Irish troops whilst peace-keeping abroad? Or should our lads just surrender once armour shows up?

    I would imagine that anti-tank weaponry is a basic requirement for a modern military.


    Never happened. No UN peace keeping force would ever be deployed to an area where they would be faced by an enemy equipped with armour. You are right about a modern military requiring an anti tank capability, however Ireland will never ever be capable of fighting a modern war, thus the use of modern weapons is redundant. Again any country capable of transporting vehicles that require guided missiles to destroy to Ireland have already defeated us. The money would be better spent on the garda siochana or on fishery patrol vessels.


  • #43
    pontia
    Site Banned Posts: 385 ✭✭pontia


    why have we even got an army ? if were invaded they couldent defend a wet bag,waste of money


  • #44
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Selling the nations telecoms infrastructure.

    Giving away the M50 tolling at a ridiculous cost and then buying it back instead of just taking it.


  • #45
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Has anyone mentioned the number of Tribunals that went on for decades with nothing to show for them ?


  • #46
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    pontia wrote: »
    why have we even got an army ? if were invaded they couldent defend a wet bag,waste of money

    Having an army allows us to borrow money at a lower rate. Funding an army however, is a waste!


  • #47
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    black francis wrote: »
    Not sure, heard some radio show mention something about an "economic downturn" there a while ago.
    On 27 October 2010, An Bord Pleanála granted a Railway Order for Metro North

    Maybe news reached them in early 2011!


  • #48
    sheikhnguyen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭sheikhnguyen


    pontia wrote: »
    why have we even got an army ? if were invaded they couldent defend a wet bag,waste of money

    Couldn't agree more. However we have it for 2 reasons:
    1. To guarantee the civil power aka protect the government from a rake of us with shotguns.....
    2. To enable us to get low rates on the international bond markets. A standing army is indicative of a government that is stable.

    The air force and the navy both serve useful purposes it is the army that is a giant waste of money!!!


  • #49
    Aenaes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Aenaes


    Paying Presidential salary and pensions.


  • #50
    donegal_road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭donegal_road


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned the number of Tribunals that went on for decades with nothing to show for them ?

    was just looking them up

    Mahon, Moriarity, the Travers Report alone cost a staggering €500 million






    .


  • #51
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Aenaes wrote: »
    Paying Presidential salary and pensions.

    I think the president does have an important role when it comes to tourism and north-south relations.
    You can't expect someone not necessarily from a political background to fund themselves to be president so I think expenses and the average industrial wage would be suitable.


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  • #52
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Where To wrote: »
    Money spent by the general public in the last twenty years on booze, tobacco, tanning salons and designer clothes;

    Untold billions.

    You forgot the drugs..:D


  • #53
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,156 ✭✭✭srsly78


    charlemont wrote: »
    You forgot the drugs..:D

    Yeah but the thread is about waste, not about awesome.


  • #54
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    Maybe news reached them in early 2011!

    Bord Plenala aren't a funding authority - they just deal with planning appeals.


  • #55
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    sheikhnguyen wrote: »

    The air force

    The airforce is a glorified chauffeur corp.

    For an air force to not have a single, not one, plane capable of firing a weapon is ridiculous.


  • #56
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Aenaes wrote: »
    Paying Presidential salary and pensions.

    Or nowadays paying for secret pot'o'gold bunkers.


  • #57
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    For an air force to not have a single, not one, plane capable of firing a weapon is ridiculous.

    This is not true, but I agree with you.


  • #58
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    R.T.E


  • #59
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    donvito99 wrote: »
    This is not true, but I agree with you.

    Ok, let me correct myself.

    The air force as stands is limited to ground attack in a very low altitude, perfect clear weather capability. Still ridiculous.


  • #60
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,156 ✭✭✭srsly78


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Ok, let me correct myself.

    The air force as stands is limited to ground attack in a very low altitude, perfect clear weather capability. Still ridiculous.

    Crashing into stuff hardly counts as ground attack.


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  • #61
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    Might not have been a government project, but the €4 million of Irish aid that ''went missing'' in Uganda is ridiculous.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/4m-in-irish-aid-goes-missing-in-uganda-3272574.html


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