Progetto OPW per sostituire il muro di 70 m attorno all’ufficio del governo ha finito per un costo di € 490.000
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/opw-project-to-replace-70m-wall-around-government-office-ended-up-costing-490000/a1790830094.html
di rossitheking
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You cannot convince me there’s not corruption and backhanders at play in the OPW.
They have pissed away our money. There are too many examples of stupidly and incomprehensibly overpriced contracts given for this to be a co-incidence.
It costs the same to build a 70m wall as a 3 or 4 bed house? Nah.
Ah jaysus lads
Surely even the original €200k estimate is ridiculous for a 70m wall??
The same grubby hands all over this one too.
Next election, I’m off out to out up a few posters.
Not a fan of the government but if you read the article, the wall cost €240k but ESB issues were discovered so that led to the higher cost – was originally budgeted for €200k.
Fair play to the journos who keep uncovering these. I know it’s clickbaity but it’s absolutely necessary. If only you could literally call people out and question them / background check their personal dealings like what would happen in the private sector.
The whole thing needs to be properly audited. They’re getting horrendous value for money on these projects and we need to know what’s causing that and sort it out.
I’m getting so sick of this
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All the companies that are doing this work should be.named and shamed
Dial Before You Dig Service Been using it for decades….
Click bait article. They are comparing the original cost *excluding* VAT to the final cost **inclusive** of VAT.
The actual wall was delivered on budget.
>On the rebuilding project, they said: “The total costs involved in the wall removal and reconstruction was €201,500 ex VAT in line with the original estimate.”
>For the unforeseen electrical cable, they said works on that were now complete.
>“The total additional cost due the discovery of the live wire cable was €211,300 ex VAT,” an information note said.
It was the additional works for the power cable(and the watermain) that cost the additional amount.
To top it off the wall is pig rough… if it was built around a house it’d have to be knocked.
And they have so much red tape that you need permission to tie your shoe laces around them
Cant afford to help people in the West of Ireland. We have too many empty bike sheds and pointless walls to be built in Dublin.
Bike sheds, Security Huts, Printing, Signs and now walls. Incredible tax payer value.
> The extra works to deal with the high voltage live electricity cable that was uncovered during the work however, ended up adding more than €250,000 to the bill.
It seems to me that they were pretty on target until they found a cable. It would be worth finding out how that happened but the article doesn’t cover it.
The article mentions that they found an unforeseen high powered cable. That’s quite a change especially if they were dealing with a third party (the ESB) who are under no urgency to resolve it. Another story about how ignorant the media is over public works in Ireland
Office of public waste strikes again
Fuck, those ads are head wrecking!