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€1.3 million to build the Dáil's sweetshop

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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.

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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?".