If €336k Being Spent On A Bike Shed Angers You Simon Harris, Then These Scandals Will Boil Your Piss

IN COMMENTS yesterday you, Taoiseach Simon Harris, said the OPW spending €336k on a bike shed is ‘inexcusable and inexplicable’ and that it ‘angers and annoys’ you.

If such a small sum of money, relatively speaking, wasted by the Irish State angers you so, then the following should completely and irrevocably boil your piss:

€19 million was allocated to Children’s Health Ireland to be used to address scoliosis surgery waiting lists. This money was misappropriated and spent on things other than ending children’s suffering and immense pain.

This week a whistleblower revealed €1.1bn has been lost in social welfare overpayments in a decade.

€158m has been spent on the Metrolink project since 2023 despite no actual construction taking place.

In 2022, the government failed to spend 25% (€1 billion) of its social housing budget in the middle of a housing crisis.

If Ireland remains on its current trajectory on climate targets it will face fines of at least €8.2bn after 2030.

In 2022, local councils only bothered to collect €138,335 of the €9.6 million they were owed by land hoarders in vacant site levies, and 13 of 31 local authorities didn’t even issue demands for vacant site levies to be paid.

BAM, builders of the National Children’s Hospital recently asked for an additional €107mn, bringing the total cost of construction to over €2.3 billion. Once you take a sedative to calm your fury Taoiseach, you might consider confronting whoever was Minister for Health at the time construction began.

The coalition government punished state broadcaster RTÉ for its mismanagement; concealed payments, €2.2 million on a musical, forcing PAYE employees to be freelance contractors, with €725 million funding.

In 2002, then Min for Education Michael Woods signed an agreement with 18 Irish religious orders involved in child sex-abuse scandals limiting their compensation liability to victims to only €128 million. This compensation scheme is estimated to have cost the Irish government €1.35 billion. Something to chew over Taoiseach as you consider news of an inquiry identifying 2,400 cases of sexual abuse in 308 schools run by religious orders.

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