The Office of Public Works has come under fire after spending nearly half-a-million euro on a new wall for a state agency.
A replacement wall for the Dublin headquarters of the Workplace Relations Commission cost €490,000, leading to the OPW to be nicknamed ‘the office of posh walls’."That wasn’t really a bike shed, it was just a bit of glass on a few poles and held 20 bikes and barely kept the rain off.A cyclist uses the bike shed at Leinster House. Image: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo“It costs a ridiculous amount of money to do small amounts of work like building a wall or a bike shed or a security hut.
A new security hut at the back entrance of Leinster House in Dublin cost €1.429 million, according to the Office of Public Works . Photo shows: the security hut. Photograph: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie. 25/09/2024“If you look at their breakdown of material, it looks like they were very clear about what they were going to do – but evidently they didn’t survey correctly," he said.
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