Leinster House Bicycle Shed

So it’s the fault of a spineless politician?

They are all spineless when comes to the greens,FFG Have bent over backwards at all levels to keep the greens onside,the greens threats to destabilise the country by bringing down the government are reprehensible.

The greens have been the most sinister and insidious political party to have ever been in Government.Hopefully we soon see the back of them.😀

Who cares about the truth ?

The Green Party Ministers have their own portfolios to look after and now you expect them to check on every project the other Ministers are doing as well.

I was just pointing out that the gate project was a bigger and more detailed project than the bicycle shelter.

A lot more than a bit of hammerite.

he’s taken charge of the shelter now, to house international protection seekers.

Apparently Kieran O'Donnell has now called for a full investigation, sounds like he doesn't even know what is going on in his own portfolio, the monolith that is the O.P.W. seem to be a law upon themselves.

I would like to see the tendering process documents and which one they ran with, civil service have to have at least 3 to choose from, maybe all of this will go to the PAC as its a total waste of taxpayers money, where is the value here??

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/minister-demands-review-of-336000-spend-on-shelter-for-18-bikes-at-leinster-house-as-taoiseach-labels-cost-extortionate/a1502076818.html

some contractor is about to win the lotto.

There needs to be an investigation into all these state departments and agencies, especially the black hole that is the HSE the biggest wasters there is. Also till there is accountability at the top then there won't be accountability all the way down. We have Harris saying he is angry about this and yet he was the one that signed off on the blank cheque for the childrens hospital and look at what that has cost and yet what happens to him he gets promoted.

There will be some sort of an investigation.

Will it answer all the questions ? Probably not.

Will anything change at OPW ? Very little.

You are right they are a monolith and always have been but they only continue to be due to lack of oversight and compliant politicians.

We don't have an opposition

They (TDS) have probably all been told to make sure its filled up to capacity on the re-opening of the Dail on the 18th September, all 18 bike spaces. Its gone viral now and all over media outlets. Everyone is talking about it.

If there is proof of fraud - Yes they should be investigated and jailed. There needs to be more enphases on white collar government related procument and crime. There should be a mandatory fraud squad investigation with every procurement decision made going forward to make sure there is no one taking the p1ss and go through the last decade where there are situations where it is obvious that money has disappeared into a black hole. Also if the civil servants are incompetent then they should be sacked and have their pension taken from them. We need accountability the tax payer is being fleeced and we cant even house ourselves. As others pointed out the bike shed should be the start and all other areas of spend needs to be looked at but things have to change look at RTE not one person held accountable imagine if Dee Forbes had been pulled into a court room by the fraud squad and asked about one of the many smoking guns that show that fraud took place say the barter account she could of been locked up and it would of been a deterrent for anyone looking to gouge at the state coffers going forward. Same goes with the children's hospital from 500 million to over 2 billion in a few years that's absolutely mad there has to be someone making a forturne on this and not giving value for to the tax payer for it. Its not just financial accountability I mean look at our government making promise after promise to get power and not delivering on what got them into office and they may get voted out but will have a lovely big pension to suckle on for the rest of their lives.

Its clear from the outside looking in that once the state is involved with regards to finance the people/company who get the job/contract start rubbing their hands together for their payday as the money supply is endless and this needs to stop. Someone impartial needs to looking at the spend side on every decision made and calling out what is a shameful waste of money and more accountability as in arresting people and making them fully accountable for their actions.

So just leave it then is it? So the tax payer should just remain bent over that table wiating for yet another government related procurement decision to takes its turn on them? Is that your solution? If they beefed up the fraud squad giving it more power to look at something with out having to be called in. There is a chance that someone in the fraud squad could be corrupt but something has to change and it will cost money but it will be a fraction of the cost of what is going on currently but I do hear you who would keep an eye on them and up and up we go. Having said that how many man/woman years of of work with people actually looking at our procurement system could we have gotten for the 1.5billion overspend in the children's hospital and we could always incentivize for example the bike shed lets be honest it should of cost 20/30k say 30k. if someone was watching the procurement procedure and interjected and saved the state 300k you could always give them 10% of the savings so its in their own interest to blow the whistle. There are ways and means to get people to work for the state correctly.

Honestly, the Aus trip sounds unlikely, but an FOI request would confirm it either way.

How do you magically fill up a bike shed with bikes, in the building with most journalists per square metre in the State, without leaking?

And the predicted Green Party seats in the next general election is how many ? 🤪

There's a distinct difference between green policy and green party

Green Policy is like some weird religion at this stage, you can get away with nearly anything if you declare it to be green or, better for the environment, and enough people believe you (Not a bike shed it would seem).

Green Party are a political party that believe in sustainable policy (which some might argue green policy is a part of, but maybe not to the extent of a 300k Bike shed).