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    La scultura al quartier generale della banca centrale costa € 616.000 – Più del doppio del prezzo iniziale

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    2. Kyadagum_Dulgadee on

      It saddens me to think of the bike shelter we could have built with that money.

    4. sparksAndFizzles on

      I thought it was some kind of discarded construction equipment the contractors forgot to remove.

    6. TurfMilkshake on

      Scaffold pole inflation has been crazy the last couple of years

    8. TheGratedCornholio on

      This is the funniest bit:

      “The bank also said there were additional costs related to VAT on UK invoices, which were not anticipated when the initial price was estimated in 2015”

      “Motherfucking VAT, how does it work?” – The Central Bank

    12. DarthMauly on

      €600,000….

      If you told me that was a recycled old climbing frame from a playground I’d believe it.

    13. snnnneaky on

      Fuck me….

      ![gif](giphy|26n6Gx9moCgs1pUuk)

      The artist….telling her mates how she robbed a bank

    14. mobby123 on

      600k for a bunch of sticks stuck together? Fuck me

      There’s art, abstract art and whatever this classifies as. Money laundering?

    17. sureyouknowurself on

      Can I please stop paying so much income tax to fund this shite.

    18. That-Was-Mee on

      Even the initial price tag is a rip off. How are things like this getting approval

    20. slevinonion on

      I’d bet even art lovers have no idea what half these nonsense things are. 600k for a scaffolding pole.

    21. Mini_gunslinger on

      I’ve seen more impressive money bar/jungle gym setups

    22. not_extinct_dodo on

      The builder’s fee was 70k. Let that sink in.

      The median salary in Ireland is around 45k.

      So the builder got paid 60% more than the median *annual* salary for a job that couldn’t take more than a couple of *weeks*. This is besides any other additional fees they may have also charged, or any profit they made from the cost of the materials.

    24. EnvelopeFilter22 on

      It’s becoming a new normal in Ireland to expect these types of projects to come in way beyond any estimate or value for the overall cost.

      Only lads benefiting are the ones getting the contracts and complacency means there’s fuck all consequences.

    25. eiretaco on

      It’s not really her art unless she’s up there on a scaffold welding it herself.

    26. Weepsie on

      Rothschild was selected for Ireland’s 2019 bienalle exhibition. It was the worst of the 5 ones I’ve seen totally unremarkable and said absolutely nothing that it was trying to pretend it was

    27. Public-Farmer-5743 on

      Voting for corruption unsurprisingly bring lots of corruption. It seems like we need to work on this like Ted and Dougal with the cows in the caravan… 😆

    29. angeltabris_ on

      >more than double its initial price tag

      are we meant to be shocked by this?

    32. LukePickle007 on

      > €250,000 was spent on design and build costs

      What the fuck it is literally just scaffold poles welded together.

    33. ElectricClub2 on

      There should be a spending limit on “creative sculptures”, do we not have a tariff policy on expenditure…

    34. Original-Salt9990 on

      €600,000.00+ for that absolute monstrosity is fucking insane.

      Just another example of taxpayer funds being pissed away into the abyss.

    36. Galway1012 on

      “a really strong and lasting engagement with the public is possible”

      What a load of utter codswallop

    37. Sea-Seesaw-2342 on

      The amount of money being wasted by our govt is really starting to piss me off.

      As somebody who owns a metal fabrication business, €300k for something like this is an utter joke. I’d be laughing all the way to the bank if I got half that.

      But the real gangsters are the ones charging a couple of hundred thousand to store it ‘post Covid pre installation’
      I mean really, with a few well positioned cuts, and sleeves for rejoining on installation it would take up no space.

      People see government and then see central bank on an email and just count their lucky stars.

    39. Accomplished-Ad-6639 on

      Why are they outsourcing ART to an English company?

      How can the central bank not anticipate VAT? Also makes choosing a non Irish, no even an eu company worse.

      Covid delay resulted in “additional professional services costs”. What possible professional services were needed because of a covid delay? I get storage costs, and maybe builders costs aswell, but is professional services an additional fee to the artist.

      Also how funny is it that they chose a “Rothschild” for the sculpture for the central bank.

    40. AdmiralRaspberry on

      Nah man this is some banan shit 😂 stuff made of colored pvc pipes for a price of a 3 bed house in Dublin outskirts really? 

    41. OkAge4185 on

      How does everything end up costing more than the initial price tag? Just give the right price on procurement, there should be consequences for quoting false costs.

    43. harfinater767 on

      That’s just a bit of scaffolding with different coloured electrical tape! Any welder or scafolder would do that for a €100 and a pack of JPS nixer and be done on a Saturday afternoon

    44. Ok_Owl_7559 on

      Will they be getting one for outside the children’s hospital too ?

    45. Zebra_Radiant on

      I’m no art expert, but I dare say, this looks like an unfinished Gazebo installation

    47. UrbanStray on

      How much do sculptures of this type normally cost to design and install?

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