Monaco was able to build hundreds of luxury apartments that were built on land newly reclaimed from the sea for less but our government couldn't even build a hospital for that price, it's a shameless rip off but they will be reelected so as a nation we get what we deserve.
The fact that these guys could not see the forthcoming costs goes to show exactly how out of touch they are with the reality of what it looks like for us working class
And fool harris thinks d bike shed is great I wonder did his mother ever send him to d shop for bread or milk when he was younger to teach him d value of money 335000 fot a 7000 job ogeeat fiddle for his cronies
These government politicians are living in a bubble. Ryan smirked as he responded to a question about this insane build cost figure. Is it any wonder our taxes are so high!
Who wrote the check for this. They should be fired and the money recouped. There are consumer protection laws. I did not hear either Simon or Michael talk of getting the money back.
Oddly enough, for just €6,000 you can buy a kit that builds a 15 bike, fully enclosed, weather-proofed bike shed, but our wonderful Green party decided to spend tax-payers money on a bike shed with no weather protection, no security (It doesn't have lockable doors or even walls around it), and they won't use it most of the year because it's either raining or too cold for them to cycle to work, so they'll be using their tax-payer paid for, gardai driven limousines instead, while telling everyone else in Ireland to get the bus/train to work instead of using their cars. Strange how this story has only just broken, after the bike shed had been built months ago, but hardly used because of its condition. All this before the next election due in or around November, and the Green Party still think they have a chance of staying in power, despite having the lowest popularity rating on record. Looks like they'll offer to be part of a coalition government again, which they're in now, just to stay in power and help whichever party gets the most votes get a few extra just to tip the electoral balance and ensure the Greens another term in office.
Muppets the lot of them just out for themselves couldnt careless about irish people they will retire nicely thats all they care about .......worst government ever
More important to put a roof over there bikes than peoples heads. Does that bike shed look in anyway that it cost 335 grand smell something fishy going on here. Wonder who the contractor was and who is he friends with or related to in the government. Next they will start buying flip flops for everyone in Leinster house. RTE all over again 🙄
This is just to smohe screen to throw the Irish off track, this is only €340,000. No person with the Authority for the shed will be held Accountable or Responsible. These 2 should be informing the Irish taxpayers how many €billions has been spent- and how many billions will be spent on all the Fakeugee visitors who were invited, by the Irish government to come to Ireland to get FREE accommodation and free meals and pocket money and mobile phones etc etc.
Yeah easy, definitely be dragged into a 2year investigation, to write all the emails to trace the papers, to write all the emails to get the papers, to then examine the papers, with all the tea breaks, annual leave and sick leave, and considering the resignation in the process so that someone else then gets the papers to read them.... at least dragged out to 2 years
Grim. What a clown. 300 grand for a bicycle shed. They are completely out of control and are without an ounce of ability. Hardly surprising when most of them don't even know what a woman is.
Find out the most Senior person who signed that item off and sack if not properly tended for and demote otherwise. An item like that is made off site and just fixed up together.
This is typical, imagine what you cannot see. These people live in a complete bubble. Some of the public sector are working hard but unfortunately the OPW with all it's staff could not build a bike shed out of pallets, hence the consultants, engineers etc etc hired to make a bike shed. OPW staff doing nixers (Badly) during covid while paid to be off. Utter joke on the taxpayer.
This is how industrial corruption works! Money siphoned off to contractors and contract awarders. It needs to be investigated and the price renegotiated based on value analysis. It can’t be just approached as “it is what it is now”. And the bigger question is how widespread is this practice? Russian army epidemic levels? Is the government a guardian of Irish tax payers money or just a conduit for distributing it to their mates?
I would assume it has nothing to do with the actual contracting and is all based on planning. Some projects especially in public places can take years of bureaucracy.
Bloody disgusting acting like they didn't know passing it every day and not even asking how much it was costing they don't give me a damn sure it's only tax payers money who signed off on it
1:17 The person who signed off on this should be revealed and to be not put in charge of money again and if proven he had received any money from this arrested and prosecution to the full any body who had any part in this crime to face prosecution this blatant abuse of public money. If you have seen my comment you probably have realised by nowI'm in a dream state or have a major mental problem if this was to ever come through I'll buy a lottery ticket and win on second taughts I'll find one and then win
Martin is always the coward, always dancing around every subject and always afraid to offend. He has no bottle and is the worse Fianna Fail leader in the history of that party.
to give Michael Martin his due, he told Dr. Houlihan not to have press conferences and was disobeyed. M Martin to me is similar to Michael Connelly's Last Coyote and Crais's Last Detective. Martin is the Last T.D.
Ireland has recently won 2 new Gold Medals: No 1. for The most expensive Bike Shed in the history of Humanity. No 2. for The Most Expensive Children's Hospital in the history of Humanity. (No. 3 ,4 ,5 , 6 ,7 , 8 ...etc. have yet to be found out.)
Business as usual I see... NO accountability, NO heads ever roll for such outrageous waste of public money --- but if they thought you were over-paid a fiver in your unemployment or pension payment, they`d be at your door threatening you with prison for fraud.... Patrick Street in Fermoy [ a major street] was due to be re-surfaced, at a cost of 450 K --- the funding was stopped/withdrawn recently ---- it was probably `diverted`to pay for this rubbish...... so their bike shelter [used by a few ] got priority over a busy main street in a major town, used by many...Ballymagash is alive and well, courtesy of FF and FG and it will NEVER change ... a shower of self-serving muppets. They wouldn`t be kept beyond coffee-break time, on a Monday morning, in the private sector , before being given the door. Revenue squeezing the last Euro out of you, and this is what it goes on...........
Divide 18 into 336,000. That's what each bike space costs. We must be the laughing stock of the world. And the paddy that paid for it should be put in stocks in the village square, and pay back all the money that the bike shed didn't cost.
Just like the 10 million paid for the big engines to generate electricity & can’t be transported anywhere so sitting in Dublin Docks. I think they should close in the bike shed & house the refugees there😂😂
Taken for a ride but can't afford a saddle, so we get screwed. I think you could build a basic bike shed for a lot cheaper than 10k, more like a few hundred quid.
They're making out they didn't know, of course they would know🤣🤣 They'd have to sign off on that much funding coming from one budget, just for one bikeshed🤣🤣
A quantity surveyor's report is needed and the difference repaid back to the tax payer. Those that signed off on this extortionate project must be sacked. But then there is reality, how things are done by Dail Eireann.
Of source the bike shed project is a crazy cost. But bear in mind that many thousands of invoices are paid each week to provide service to the state. This invoice cost was ridiculous but I don't expect our leaders to monitor every single payment. I'd regard the bike shed as a matter for the OPW to comment on - it's not really matter for top government.
If only we had someone who is supposed to be in charge of things…..oh wait. If they don’t give a shite about spending three billion on a hospital that still isn’t open, then they’re hardly going to worry about a bike shed.
Don't you usually get a quote or two for a construction job before they commence. Strange they are only now looking at the cost after public exposure. Unforeseen extra's ?
The party has twelve TDs, four Senators, two MEPs, and two MLAs. A total of 18 senior public representatives across the island of Ireland (Éire) the 18 rack bicycle shed was obviously built for them.
It angers and annoys him but he will not sack the minister responsible. Nor will he sack the worst minister in the history of the state: Helen McEntee.
They need to look at which of their politicians have links to the construction company. Something like that shouldn't cost anywhere near that. We have thousands of glass and stainless steel bus shelters in Wales and they cost less than £16,000 each with tax, and look like smaller versions of this. Irish taxpayers are being fleeced by their government here.
MICK SAYS, it is What it Is Now. Doesn't He think the Taxpayers who paid for this should see the Whole Detail on who Ordered same & who Signed of on the Deal. Imagine that the Leaders of the Irish Parliament don't KNOW how this came About. Please
THIS SCAM, needs to be Investigated by the Proper Authority even CAB may be needed. If the Politicians in Leinster Hse want to Pay for it out of their Own Pockets well & good. But this is Money belonging to the Irish Taxpayer. DISGRACEFUL
Those two couldn't care less how much it cost because its not coming out of their pocket. All that money spend on a bike shed is absolutely disgraceful when children are waiting on spine surgeries, this is the man who said no child would wait more than a few months for their surgery , that was 7 years ago , he should be ashamed of himself with still nothing done for those children, they are more important than someones bike getting a bit wet , shame on you all.
Any builder in d country looks at a job 5 minutes he knows what he needs and d costs especially in a small job like that and they paid a quantity surveyor 10.000 to price it what a complete fiddle of taxpayers money it shows d curroption in this government 😢😢
Now you know why we have the most expensive building of a children's hospital in the world.
Monaco was able to build hundreds of luxury apartments that were built on land newly reclaimed from the sea for less but our government couldn't even build a hospital for that price, it's a shameless rip off but they will be reelected so as a nation we get what we deserve.
Who is the Contractor and which Party or Political individual is he buddies with?
Exactly
Nothing changed since Haughey.
The fact that these guys could not see the forthcoming costs goes to show exactly how out of touch they are with the reality of what it looks like for us working class
It should have been a fixed price contract tendered for the an in house design. Every single effing thing they do is obscene waste.
And fool harris thinks d bike shed is great I wonder did his mother ever send him to d shop for bread or milk when he was younger to teach him d value of money 335000 fot a 7000 job ogeeat fiddle for his cronies
@@casteretpollux same of the children’s Hospital bam bam. 💥
It goes much deeper but your editor doesn't want to know or expose the extent of it. I was silenced. Why?.
These government politicians are living in a bubble.
Ryan smirked as he responded to a question about this insane build cost figure.
Is it any wonder our taxes are so high!
Yes I noticed that too. He is not a nice man.
Which of their mates got d contract 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Harris and Martin were not too bothered either going by their glib answers.
Ryan needs something shoved up his bicycle pump
"It is what it is". In other words he is saying, put up and shut up about it. Ass.
Do u work for d government
@@noelfleming3567no. please see edited comment. It was not clear initially what I meant...
We”re not paying our taxes any more Michael…is what it is now.
Who wrote the check for this. They should be fired and the money recouped. There are consumer protection laws. I did not hear either Simon or Michael talk of getting the money back.
Oddly enough, for just €6,000 you can buy a kit that builds a 15 bike, fully enclosed, weather-proofed bike shed, but our wonderful Green party decided to spend tax-payers money on a bike shed with no weather protection, no security (It doesn't have lockable doors or even walls around it), and they won't use it most of the year because it's either raining or too cold for them to cycle to work, so they'll be using their tax-payer paid for, gardai driven limousines instead, while telling everyone else in Ireland to get the bus/train to work instead of using their cars.
Strange how this story has only just broken, after the bike shed had been built months ago, but hardly used because of its condition.
All this before the next election due in or around November, and the Green Party still think they have a chance of staying in power, despite having the lowest popularity rating on record.
Looks like they'll offer to be part of a coalition government again, which they're in now, just to stay in power and help whichever party gets the most votes get a few extra just to tip the electoral balance and ensure the Greens another term in office.
I dislike the greens personally but I'm struggling to see how they can be blamed for the cost here?
did he just say it is what it is...? good god.....
Yes the jack ass did.
Corruption at its finest.
Possibly but this is the case for nearly all development in Ireland. Over regulation means half the cost is planning based.
@@Art-is-craft We know the plan that went into that thing.Contracts for friends.
Look on the positive side, it only costs €18,333.00 per bike to park. What a bargain !
2 human beings who have such control and power over the lives of 5,263.545 million people....
Highly uneducated, not voted for, either . How dare they subject us to this !
@@patrickol4300and dangerous
@patrickol4300 it's not like they are going to make you use the bike rack?
Price of a Good House in Rural Ireland. More proof that the Government remains in a Bubble. Now a Review, more waste of Taxpayers money…
The new pavement in my local village was 660k,
a weazel
TBF, you're giving wea(z)els a bad name. These are snakes !
@@patrickol4300youre giving snakes a bad name ......😂
Muppets the lot of them just out for themselves couldnt careless about irish people they will retire nicely thats all they care about .......worst government ever
More important to put a roof over there bikes than peoples heads. Does that bike shed look in anyway that it cost 335 grand smell something fishy going on here. Wonder who the contractor was and who is he friends with or related to in the government. Next they will start buying flip flops for everyone in Leinster house. RTE all over again 🙄
They would have bought two steel sheds for two and a half thousand euro. Always said follow the money trail. They are like pigs in the trough.
Makes too much sense, since when did this government make any sense?
This is just to smohe screen to throw the Irish off track, this is only €340,000. No person with the Authority for the shed will be held Accountable or Responsible. These 2 should be informing the Irish taxpayers how many €billions has been spent- and how many billions will be spent on all the Fakeugee visitors who were invited, by the Irish government to come to Ireland to get FREE accommodation and free meals and pocket money and mobile phones etc etc.
How much will the review cost. End up costing another 300,000
Yeah easy, definitely be dragged into a 2year investigation, to write all the emails to trace the papers, to write all the emails to get the papers, to then examine the papers, with all the tea breaks, annual leave and sick leave, and considering the resignation in the process so that someone else then gets the papers to read them.... at least dragged out to 2 years
And they will conclude they were undercharged.
I won't be able to sleep at night wondering who is going to lose there job and be held accountable for this.
You'll be awake for ever more then..
@@HOLLYHOCKFLOWERS I know as I have always said we live in one of the most corr upt countries in the world.
it is what it is and now shut up go to work and pay you taxes
Grim. What a clown. 300 grand for a bicycle shed. They are completely out of control and are without an ounce of ability. Hardly surprising when most of them don't even know what a woman is.
You obviously have no clue what a shed looks like either.
“It is what it is” states Mehole. €335,000 for a bike shelter - “it is what it is” f**kin’ brilliant!
Are we surprised the children's hospital is over 2billion and not finished..What a bunch of ..........!
Stay on-point !
Find out the most Senior person who signed that item off and sack if not properly tended for and demote otherwise. An item like that is made off site and just fixed up together.
Bike shelter same price as semi - detached in some parts of Ireland 🇮🇪 shameful
This is typical, imagine what you cannot see.
These people live in a complete bubble.
Some of the public sector are working hard but unfortunately the OPW with all it's staff could not build a bike shed out of pallets, hence the consultants, engineers etc etc hired to make a bike shed.
OPW staff doing nixers (Badly) during covid while paid to be off.
Utter joke on the taxpayer.
This is how industrial corruption works! Money siphoned off to contractors and contract awarders. It needs to be investigated and the price renegotiated based on value analysis. It can’t be just approached as “it is what it is now”. And the bigger question is how widespread is this practice? Russian army epidemic levels? Is the government a guardian of Irish tax payers money or just a conduit for distributing it to their mates?
I would assume it has nothing to do with the actual contracting and is all based on planning. Some projects especially in public places can take years of bureaucracy.
So you are shocked? What did you think has been happening since the EU troughfeeding began?
@@Art-is-craftso stop assuming and providing cover for theft of public money
Pure evil.
Bloody disgusting acting like they didn't know passing it every day and not even asking how much it was costing they don't give me a damn sure it's only tax payers money who signed off on it
I think it's a lovely shelter. At least the tents under it won't leak as much now.
1:17 The person who signed off on this should be revealed and to be not put in charge of money again and if proven he had received any money from this arrested and prosecution to the full any body who had any part in this crime to face prosecution this blatant abuse of public money. If you have seen my comment you probably have realised by nowI'm in a dream state or have a major mental problem if this was to ever come through I'll buy a lottery ticket and win on second taughts I'll find one and then win
Contractors laughing their way to the bank, pure insanity
Theyre absolutely taking the piss....!!
Martin is always the coward, always dancing around every subject and always afraid to offend. He has no bottle and is the worse Fianna Fail leader in the history of that party.
to give Michael Martin his due, he told Dr. Houlihan not to have press conferences and was disobeyed. M Martin to me is similar to Michael Connelly's Last Coyote and Crais's Last Detective. Martin is the Last T.D.
I agree totally. We'll put.
It’s a disgrace ..typical
This is happening every day
Ireland has recently won 2 new Gold Medals:
No 1. for The most expensive Bike Shed in the history of Humanity.
No 2. for The Most Expensive Children's Hospital in the history of Humanity.
(No. 3 ,4 ,5 , 6 ,7 , 8 ...etc. have yet to be found out.)
Business as usual I see... NO accountability, NO heads ever roll for such outrageous waste of public money --- but if they thought you were over-paid a fiver in your unemployment or pension payment, they`d be at your door threatening you with prison for fraud.... Patrick Street in Fermoy [ a major street] was due to be re-surfaced, at a cost of 450 K --- the funding was stopped/withdrawn recently ---- it was probably `diverted`to pay for this rubbish...... so their bike shelter [used by a few ] got priority over a busy main street in a major town, used by many...Ballymagash is alive and well, courtesy of FF and FG and it will NEVER change ... a shower of self-serving muppets. They wouldn`t be kept beyond coffee-break time, on a Monday morning, in the private sector , before being given the door. Revenue squeezing the last Euro out of you, and this is what it goes on...........
Something tells me eamon Ryan rote the check
Disgusting. No accountability
Divide 18 into 336,000. That's what each bike space costs. We must be the laughing stock of the world. And the paddy that paid for it should be put in stocks in the village square, and pay back all the money that the bike shed didn't cost.
Who was the contract awarded to.
Just like the 10 million paid for the big engines to generate electricity & can’t be transported anywhere so sitting in Dublin Docks. I think they should close in the bike shed & house the refugees there😂😂
If the men of 1916 could see the Irish political leadership now..
The Niall Tobin sketch comes to mind. Get the Caven man to build it.
🇮🇪🇪🇺
Probably could be built for €10.000 euro Irish citizens taken for a ride again if you get it
Taken for a ride but can't afford a saddle, so we get screwed. I think you could build a basic bike shed for a lot cheaper than 10k, more like a few hundred quid.
The B####### ….. f in cycle thing ….FFS
We need an Election passing Taxpayers money to their Cronies it's been going on for years children's Hospital is a staggering example
Michael Collins had a bike, how many think he would have approved?
They're making out they didn't know, of course they would know🤣🤣
They'd have to sign off on that much funding coming from one budget, just for one bikeshed🤣🤣
Pair of ginnets if ever there was! 😂
what's a few 100k to them when they've splashed out nearly 1.5bn on the upkeep of Ukrainian nationals, including €1m a month on their pampered PETS!
It's a dog's life
Should see what they did in roscommon town and how much it was ...something that will not last 10 years if we are lucky
A quantity surveyor's report is needed and the difference repaid back to the tax payer. Those that signed off on this extortionate project must be sacked.
But then there is reality, how things are done by Dail Eireann.
😂 its not funny anymore. Such waste.
It's from platinum or golden ?
Of source the bike shed project is a crazy cost.
But bear in mind that many thousands of invoices are paid each week to provide service to the state.
This invoice cost was ridiculous but I don't expect our leaders to monitor every single payment. I'd regard the bike shed as a matter for the OPW to comment on - it's not really matter for top government.
Disgraceful carry on!!
If only we had someone who is supposed to be in charge of things…..oh wait. If they don’t give a shite about spending three billion on a hospital that still isn’t open, then they’re hardly going to worry about a bike shed.
Who wrote the cheque and who built it?? Utter shambles
Is built from gold
This has to be a joke...
Who built it? Company owned by one of your mates from private school by any chance?
Don't you usually get a quote or two for a construction job before they commence. Strange they are only now looking at the cost after public exposure. Unforeseen extra's ?
The party has twelve TDs, four Senators, two MEPs, and two MLAs. A total of 18 senior public representatives across the island of Ireland (Éire) the 18 rack bicycle shed was obviously built for them.
Should have got Migrants to do it, cost 3,500 euro
Just get this tragic government OUT !
It angers and annoys him but he will not sack the minister responsible.
Nor will he sack the worst minister in the history of the state:
Helen McEntee.
They need to look at which of their politicians have links to the construction company. Something like that shouldn't cost anywhere near that. We have thousands of glass and stainless steel bus shelters in Wales and they cost less than £16,000 each with tax, and look like smaller versions of this. Irish taxpayers are being fleeced by their government here.
Pure corruption .someone's mate got this contract anyway
We”re not paying our taxes any more Michael….is what it is now.
MICK
SAYS, it is What it Is Now.
Doesn't He think the Taxpayers who paid for this should see the Whole Detail on who Ordered same & who Signed of on the Deal.
Imagine that the Leaders of the Irish Parliament don't KNOW how this came About.
Please
THIS
SCAM, needs to be Investigated by the Proper Authority even CAB may be needed.
If the Politicians in Leinster Hse want to Pay for it out of their Own Pockets well & good.
But this is Money belonging to the Irish Taxpayer.
DISGRACEFUL
They should name it the O'Donovan O'Donnell meeting place
Those two couldn't care less how much it cost because its not coming out of their pocket. All that money spend on a bike shed is absolutely disgraceful when children are waiting on spine surgeries, this is the man who said no child would wait more than a few months for their surgery , that was 7 years ago , he should be ashamed of himself with still nothing done for those children, they are more important than someones bike getting a bit wet , shame on you all.
Any builder in d country looks at a job 5 minutes he knows what he needs and d costs especially in a small job like that and they paid a quantity surveyor 10.000 to price it what a complete fiddle of taxpayers money it shows d curroption in this government 😢😢
350k is crazy for a metal pole
Cup of tea pls
How can this be? I have to work hard day in day out and revenue demand every last penny of taxes due. Its then thrown away on this.
the rte report said the prevailing wind is from the north- CYB?
How many tents will fit in d bike shed
50 k and your well paid for that
As Danny de Vito once said..."other peoples money"
Government procurement = Government Waste
Don’t forget the other day there€12 + million not Billed to health insurance companies why stupidly incompetence or just plain lazy?
Frank Spencer at it again
As Manuel in Fawlty Towers says " I Know Nothing"
it's actually the first metro station 😂 336k nice one with an elevator
Festival of fools ??
Who the contractor is a joke thats a mad price gor glass and steel unbelievable stuff
More corruption
Always had and always will be corrup
😂 his face no shame at all
Lime all liars, they get caught
97% soy.
Snouts in the Trough
Byker Grove
Mc gregor
Symbolic, in that the place doesn't exist but for the work of cyclists such as Mick Collins et al.
It can be done for 5k
Less