More shiite

Someone needs to bring it to their attention that the hedgerows are on private property and in private ownership. They aren't a feature that's been there since time immemorial like mountains or rivers, they were either planted by our ancestors or ourselves as fencing of animals, that wildlife and birds have availed of them is a bonus not a compulsory requirement on farmers.

It's grand standing from Paul Murphy. Even if it is voted thru in Dail. Supermarkets will not pay any heed. Nor will they pay any more for produce if they can avoid it.

The hedgerow thing isn't that relevant anymore really. I don't think there's lads going around with diggers pulling put ditches like there was years ago

it’s not really a builder problem but a dealing with whatever power tripping clerk of works is over the job. I’ve seen projects near completion and suddenly a clerk of works decides there may be a need for this that or the other and everything has to be redone. I’ve seen architects argue blindly on things being done a certain way and then when done it’s obvious they couldn’t work and all has to be redone.
When it’s not their money it’s not their problem seems to be the latest.

Lately too with a lot of the social projects there is a massive emphasis on sustainability. Softwood windows natural insulations and heat pumps are the order of the day. No thought put into longevity, maintenance and financial sustainability but then again it’s someone else’s money and all someone else’s problem down the line.

It's acting as a substitute equivalent of a 'Japanese Rage Room' where you can vent.

I'd have no sympathy for a Council. They aren't too slow to enforce rules against certain people when it suits them and yet many of them breach their own rules. Often due to staff complete incompetence at the jobs they specifically get paid to do

Your issue isn't with the objector in that case, it's with the eejits drawing good wages but not doing their jobs.

I know of a fella who had to have an archaeologist on site when putting up the pillars for a new shed because there was a potentially small historical site about 250 metres away. The "historical site" was on a bit of land actually owned by the Council and they put the condition on the planning. It was something that had come up on one of these geophysical surveys they do when they are doing roadworks etc. The area in question was only a few metres by a few metres. Probably nothing there but it had been marked on a map as an anomaly

A year or two later the Council were doing some work themselves and the contractors literally dug a trench through where the potential "historical site" was marked………… I think it was for a drain.

My neighbour is mad doing it.

Its the crowd in the background is the issue. He requests that all information be emailed to him. Best job for councils is to send everything via post and smother him with physical paperwork

Well I wasn't supporting him. I was simply making the point that I wouldn't have any sympathy for any Council who was found to be flouting their own rules through incompetence. From the article it appears they messed up, but bulled ahead anyway.

For anyone concerned at the taxpayer expense, I'd have to question what kind of intelligence do we have with the authority to sign 30m contracts with public money but apparently still make fairly basic mistakes.

I've submitted planning permission for sheds here from scratch. Did the drawings etc. myself. Made sure every i was dotted and every t was crossed. Same thing with each and every grant or scheme application that has gone in. As I am sure most reading this will have done at some point. If we can do it without making mistakes, how can people whose actual job it is to do these things make basic errors that could cost the public millions. In the real world they'd be out the door on their arse

I don't know. I've already clarified that I wouldn't be supporting him.

According to that article, the issue in that case appears to be that the Council arsed around and then extended the time in a manner they did not have the authority to do. They gave him an open goal. Once he decided to take the shot, there was nothing they could do. The likes of these people are infamous. So the Council staff tasked with handing out 30m projects should be on the ball and not giving that easy goal.

It's the same incompetence that is going on day-in day-out in these places. The difference is that this one made the paper.

PBP have made a bill that supermarkets should have a cap on price increases of certain foods and not being allowed to make excessive profits on them.

the devils in the detail if you bothered to read it. Softwood timber windows: require annual maintenance, into council houses so highly unlikely to happen so will more than likely need replacement in 10-15 years, external insulation made up of fibre: see where that will be when a hair line crack seeps in damp over a couple of years. Now throw in the lovely heat pumps and a few 12-1500 euro esb bills and we will see where financially sustainable is.these are only the tip of the ice berg.

I’m in an a rated house too so you’ve absolutely no idea what the running costs of my place is. I work on these projects regularly and while it might all look good on paper it’s an absolute joke of a system.

you said you’d have no pity for the council and the people drawing good wages and not doing their jobs. (I’m not trying to stand up for them because I’ve had war with them in the past). As far as I can see you’re saying it’s good enough for them because they f**k enough people over themselves.
My point is that it doesn’t always come down to people not doing their jobs. I’ve given plenty of examples both public and private jobs which have been stopped by him. It simply doesn’t come down to people not doing their job, I’ve already explained why it doesn’t. There isn’t a reason for anyone to have pity for the council as they’re not the losers in this, as I said the losers are the workers and end users / public etc. I’ll re-phrase what I said because you seem to be hung up on the word “support”, no body should be happy when he and his ilk manage to stop a job as the council are not the losers in the scenario. Sweetman or anyone else for that matter won’t wipe out the incompetence in the public sector. To think that stopping much needed public jobs to teach the council a lesson is a good thing is idiotic in my view. Over and out.

Yes, I have no pity for them. That doesn't mean I support/applaud/whatever your man for doing what he did. It is their fault, not his.

In this case it did come down to people not doing their jobs. Going by the article, they had permission for 5 years. Didn't get it done. Then incorrectly/illegally gave themselves an extension. It is quite likely that if they could have gotten that extension perfectly legitimately by doing whatever they needed to do correctly.

It was a JR. A JR looks at the process that was followed for a decision rather than the merits of the decision (Unless it is an absolute mental wrong decision). Let me give an example. Suppose there was some hypothetical regulation that said that Councils must consider the presence on "boardsdotie" bats before giving any permission. That could be satisfied by a one line in a report saying "yes, there are boardsdotie bats present but we give permission anyway".

Covid 19.

I wonder did someone die in charge of the paperwork? Or malaise set in in Galway.

AFAIK there's a company bringing in the peat labelling it as irish peat and exporting it. If you knew the half of what was going on you'd lose the plot

I thought today's announcement about more delays and another price increase for the children's hospital was ironic, after yesterday's announcement that 3300 new hospital beds would be in place by 2031, on top of the 1000 beds already in the pipeline.

Well worth doing the tour and it's free. Sorry for putting shite talk in the thread.

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