OPW and projected cost of 442K for Modular Homes

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They offer a value solution..…until they become Government contracts.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlons razor.

Look at the mess they are making of the children's hospital. BAM is the developer and threes not a hint of cronyism. Simply the state cannot manage a watertight contract and manage a project. They are seen as an easy mark with an open checkbook.

Unless there is evidence to the contrary - i will attribute it to the incompetency of the state, its lack of respect for public funds and the lack of any will to fight for value for money, as its not their money - it come from the magic money tree inside the public purse!

Follow the money 🤔

Think it honestly makes no odds at this stage, ff and fg could squander a million each on them n we'll re-elect them anyway!

Site works cost 18k more than expected, but the overall cost per home more than doubled....

It's absolutely ******* ridiculous, isn't it ?

Does that even include the site?

There's gonna be another tribunal about this isn't there

Why has nobody started a new thread on the real reason behind all this?

Tribunals are just for lads to flaunt how much they got away with. It's a rite of passage. They have a little chuckle if the tribunal costs millions and runs for years. And the beauty is that they only have to say a hail mary and 4 our fathers and they go to heaven. Amazing really. So, long as you are wealthy it does not matter how you got that wealth, you will be respected. Just steer clear of anything sexually related and you'll be grand.

That doesn't explain why the price doubled from the initial estimate.

That's all from 1 badly run Department. They should look at Education and Agriculture next.

The HSE would be number 1 on my list. Can't even imagine the waste going on there?

Why don't we just import them, these would proably come on the ferry from Spain,

https://lascasasmodulares.es/

Plenty of countrys make them and are in business years. There's no excuse for what the Government are after spending on these bar stupidity or criminality.

Some details:

Temporary Modular homes for Ukrainians former and latter missing from the thread title there.

The govt pick the contractors and the contractors pile it on because they are told they can.

Agreed. Hanlon's razor may well apply here, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But by ipso facto one or the other must apply with lunacy like this.

That's not the modular homes that we need though, that's small scale shipping long distances while we need massive scale shipping a few km. It's not in any way sustainable to the shipping houses long distances

Nowhere has made large scale modular home building work out cheaper than traditional building methods.

O'Donovan was the minister when all this was going on. It only changed recently.

Promotion based on incompetence?

It sounds like we started negotiating with a single supplier and once we were committed, the price just shot up. Of course we could import them by ship. Lots of bulky, but high valued goods are imported by sea. The whole idea behind using pre-fabricated homes was that because they are made in a factory, that factory can be anywhere in the world. I remember a hotel was built near Dublin Airport using modular units (each bedroom arrived fully constructed and kitted out) and was assembled on site in around half the time it would take to build a conventional hotel. As far as I remember the units were manufactured in the Netherlands.

True but he was until April by which all these contacts would have been completed and he is a cabinet minister now.

We will look back in year to come at how we utterly wasted this corporation tax windfall from a handful of large MNCs.

Keep voting in the same and you'll get the same.

A potato-headed country.