A new report has found that the €335,000 cost of the Leinster House bike shed was 'completely not acceptable' and 'not consistent with the scale of the project'. The Office of Public Works (OPW) published an 11-page report on Wednesday morning which stated that a 'simple assessment' was undertaken, but should have placed greater emphasis on value for money.
The cost of the Leinster House bike shed was "completely not acceptable" and "not consistent with the scale of the project", a new report has found.
The report, written by John Conlon, Chair of the OPW, was published ahead of the body’s meeting at the Oireachtas Finance Committee on Wednesday afternoon."The assessment should have placed a greater emphasis on the value for money aspects of the project," he wrote."This maximum total project cost was set by the relevant officer within the defined OPW financial thresholds.
Some €45,000 was spent on granite landscaping, while dayworks cost €30,000. Preliminaries cost €23,000, while "agree variation" was valued at €11,416.The report also said that there were a "number of options" looked at for the bike shed. This included the OPW's "preferred option" to locate the bike shed at the "West Road in front of the 1966 Block outside the Member’s Restaurant".
However, the report stated that the House of the Oireachtas Commission indicated this was "not an acceptable proposition" and this was "supported by security advice.".
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