Leinster House Bicycle Shed

the waste of money in county councils and opw must be unbelievable. It’s just name your price kinda stuff. And no accountability.
€18600 per bike 😂

Anyone doing work for government or any state owned entity can basically write their own cheque. No one cares. There is zero accountability

Our inept government is exceptional at wasting the US MNC tax windfall that we have. It's great that this windfall will last forever and ever.

No wonder they lost complete control on the Children's hospital.

the OPW are the greatest wasters in Ireland and don’t have to account to anyone.

We’ll have to wait to see, Ken Foxe squeezed this

There you go lads one for 12k (VAT included in that price). Not as aesthetically complex but functional. OPW can send my 10K consultancy check in the post.

https://www.pittman.ie/products/brooklyn-bike-shelter?variant=44519797096739

It looks like about 30k.

*Disposal of dug out material.

*A few metres of concrete

*18 bike stands

*8 prefabricated columns with a cantilevered section welded to carry roof.

*Glazing or perspex sheeting on top and back.

It would have taken maybe a day's work for 2 men to dig out ground and remove off-site.

A few days of skilled work for maybe 3-4 men, digger/teleporter on site.

I'm struggling(and I'm no QS) to get north of €30k, say €50k because it's Dublin and €10k for oversight and sign off.

What was the other €275k for?

I'd love to see the QS's paperwork

5 of these yokes would do the same job.

😅🤦🏻‍♂️ it’s this sort of crap continually happening that basically makes me think of my long term future away from this country because it’s really turning into an absolute basket case of a place ….and dangerously so.

Nice for anyone reading this on a hospital waiting list for a year with a condition requiring intervention, or waiting an hour for a Garda car following a break in or any one of the multitude of public services getting less efficiently attainable for citizens …… at least cyclists to and from Leinster House will have dry arses though, brilliant.

Bicycle seat cover in Halfords….waterproof, costs a tenner. But €335,000 of our money 🤪

this really isn’t acceptable at all. The attitude of them as well according to the indo

Asked about the costs involved, a spokeswoman for the OPW said: “The bicycle shelter is a new structure located within the setting of Leinster House, a protected structure of national importance.

“In response to the character of the historic setting a well-designed structure with an appropriate use of high-quality materials and finish were required.”

it’s a flipping bike shelter…

"The work ... upgrade ... core function of OPW ... does not require a business case"

The absolute arrogance of this statement is hard to take. Yet there was a headline in one of yesterday's papers to the effect that two-thirds of voters want this government to continue?

Is it me, or is there something amiss?

Just as a comparison, it basically looks to be about the length of 3 or 4 of these with a few 'hoops' set into concrete -

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/bill-of-335000-for-shelter-to-store-18-bikes-at-leinster-house-incredibly-expensive-eamon-ryan-says/a1502076818.html

"Asked for a copy of the scoping documents involved in the work, the Office of Public Works refused to provide them.

It said these had been prepared as part of a planning application and could not be released for “security reasons”."

I start typing something I think sounds funny.....and then I delete it.

Coz this isn't funny. Not funny at all.

Coz my young adult kids are living with me, yet they want to be able to afford their own places.

And the price of the car of the lad that got the contract for this "canopy", could likely cover the cost of a place for them.

Someone, paid by us (taxpayers), signed off on this PO.

Someone sent in that quote, knowing someone would sign off on the PO.

This is brutal.

Indeed.

The OPW aka. The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland are a law unto themselves.

Fiercely independent and proud of their history which predates the State going back almost two hundred years.

Maybe they have overstepped the mark this time and change will come but I won't hold my breath.

No business case needed as it comes under scope of "essential maintenance"!!!

Nice one, but no way. It is not "essential". A leaking roof, broken window or cracked wall repair is essential.

lots of schools have sheltered or unsheltered bike storage, and for a lot more than 18 bicycles. For hundreds of bikes. My old school has a mix of both.

You can be guaranteed that no school was offered a budget remotely approaching €335,000 for their set up.

I’d be grateful if the constituents of Dublin Bay South might have a look at themselves, and instead of enabling this individual to top the poll at the next GE… that instead they may show him the door, exit stage left, and away to obscurity where he will find himself not of the ability to exert such obscenities at the taxpayers cost…..

Here it is again…

18 bikes, shelter, €335,000…. Paid for by the taxpayers…. 🙄

Good try but wrong target.

The minister with responsibility for the OPW is Kieran O'Donnell TD Fine Gael.

https://www.finegael.ie/our-people/ministers/limerick-city/kieran-odonnell/

He has already announced his retirement so nobody will have the pleasure. This will be the last stain on his atrocious legacy..

Yes, it was built to house a souvenir shop for visitors to Leinster House.

Currently disused.

It'll be up to the electorate in Limerick.

See post above.

I suspect you may have had a slightly jaundiced view of him to start with anyway 😊