Construction stalled for more than 12 months while builders waited for the ESB to deal with a live power cable at the site in Dublin, records show
Costs on the controversial €490,000 reconstruction of a wall by the OPW spiralled as construction stalled for over a year while waiting to have a live power cable dealt with by the ESB .
Then, Sensori – the firm which was leading the project – had to wait three months before they could even get a reference number from the ESB to fix the problem. A log of one call that January said: “Contact ESB General Enquiries, as no contact received. On hold again. Reference number given to ESB.” As rebuilding of the wall resumed, work was again suspended following the discovery that another electrical cable “understood to be isolated was in fact still live”.
Details of this second fee were blacked out from documents and with the project already long overdue, another company was hired to carry out the works instead.
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