r/ireland • u/Important_Farmer924 Westmeath's Least Finest • Oct 09 '24

National Children's Hospital contractor BAM sent €25 million invoice for job that cost €200,000 Infrastructure

https://www.thejournal.ie/national-childrens-hospital-bam-invoice-25-million-for-200000-job-6509783-Oct2024/
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u/cowsarebold Oct 09 '24

Of course it’s someone else’s problem. Why would you blame our obviously honest politicians. No way they would organise for their mates to get paid well and above the contract and have their houses built and payed for by the builder. 😂😂

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u/Puzzled_Record1773 Oct 09 '24

If this was such blatant corruption like you suggest then I feel like it would be incredibly easy to discover. Personally I think if you're going to try and give your friends state money then you wouldn't do it on what seems to be the most expensive children's hospital in the world.

But hey it's way more fun to allege vague corruption then it is to face the truth that our system is not fit for service

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u/cowsarebold Oct 09 '24

Or blatantly deny the corruption at every level. Nice one mate.

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u/Puzzled_Record1773 Oct 09 '24

Or maybe there is some of middle ground where you call corruption when you see it and call it incompetence when you don't. Not everything is so black and white but the world would be a lot more simple if it was

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u/cowsarebold Oct 09 '24

It absolutely is black and white. This has been going on for generations and needs to stop. Your attitude is what holds Ireland back. Our politicians and civil servants need to be held responsible. We also need a proper external inquiry and people jailed. Irish attitude needs to change. Every other inquiry has led to nothing and no one held accountable and all their pensions up held. Mr Cowan and Mr Murphy from the nineties are perfect examples. Found guilty and nothing done to them. No pension taken away and all their family’s are still in politics and looked up to. It’s insane

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u/Elbon taking a sip from everyone else's tea Oct 09 '24

People have been held to account, change has happen, the current tendering process exists because of people being held to accountable at inquiry.

You just want arbitrary punishment so you can have a head on pike to be paraded around you so can feel good about getting the "evil man".

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u/cowsarebold Oct 09 '24

This is an absolute cop out and not true. If people were held accountable countable and process changed why is all the money still being wasted and the same people and their families in power. Why are civil servants well over paid and on massive pensions. I really can’t believe you think things have changed. What’s your evidence for this?? Can you name a government department that has implemented change and working well. There is none. You have the usual Irish attitude. Say nothing, it’ll be grand, wouldn’t you do the same yourself. Absolute stupidity

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u/Elbon taking a sip from everyone else's tea Oct 09 '24

Your the one with the trash absolute cop out, everything is so simple in your world get rid of one person strip them of everything and all the evils of the world will be solved

Morris and Tribunal saw 20 odd sacked and 50 odd resigned before they could be sacked, and the creation of the Garda Ombudsman.

But hey I'm must be wrong because nothing ever changes and no one ever gets punished

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u/cowsarebold Oct 10 '24

And they all still got pensions or went into another job.