Scaffold pole inflation has been crazy the last couple of years
Bring back the Golden Goolie.
This is the funniest bit:
“The bank also said there were additional costs related to VAT on UK invoices, which were not anticipated when the initial price was estimated in 2015”
“Motherfucking VAT, how does it work?” – The Central Bank
She made so much money out of this, she did exactly the same one in London.
Good value for the public finances.. …….. /s
€600,000….
If you told me that was a recycled old climbing frame from a playground I’d believe it.
Fuck me….
The artist….telling her mates how she robbed a bank
600k for a bunch of sticks stuck together? Fuck me
There’s art, abstract art and whatever this classifies as. Money laundering?
What even is this sculpture? It doesn’t spark joy.
Inb4: “Akht-ually have any of you been involved in public finance projects? Then stop criticising the government!”
Corruption of rampant nowadays it’s crazy
Can I please stop paying so much income tax to fund this shite.
Even the initial price tag is a rip off. How are things like this getting approval
Crann an Óir is iconic. That’s an eyesore
I’d bet even art lovers have no idea what half these nonsense things are. 600k for a scaffolding pole.
I’ve seen more impressive money bar/jungle gym setups
The builder’s fee was 70k. Let that sink in.
The median salary in Ireland is around 45k.
So the builder got paid 60% more than the median *annual* salary for a job that couldn’t take more than a couple of *weeks*. This is besides any other additional fees they may have also charged, or any profit they made from the cost of the materials.
Artist Eva Rothschild. Oh I see.
It’s becoming a new normal in Ireland to expect these types of projects to come in way beyond any estimate or value for the overall cost.
Only lads benefiting are the ones getting the contracts and complacency means there’s fuck all consequences.
It’s not really her art unless she’s up there on a scaffold welding it herself.
Rothschild was selected for Ireland’s 2019 bienalle exhibition. It was the worst of the 5 ones I’ve seen totally unremarkable and said absolutely nothing that it was trying to pretend it was
Voting for corruption unsurprisingly bring lots of corruption. It seems like we need to work on this like Ted and Dougal with the cows in the caravan… 😆
been there, it’s a frigging daddy long leg
>more than double its initial price tag
are we meant to be shocked by this?
What a waste of money
Just bizarre. Such open corruption
> €250,000 was spent on design and build costs
What the fuck it is literally just scaffold poles welded together.
I wonder the high price have anything to do with the artist being a Rothschild ?
There should be a spending limit on “creative sculptures”, do we not have a tariff policy on expenditure…
€600,000.00+ for that absolute monstrosity is fucking insane.
Just another example of taxpayer funds being pissed away into the abyss.
The Boom is back, baby !!!!!
“a really strong and lasting engagement with the public is possible”
What a load of utter codswallop
The amount of money being wasted by our govt is really starting to piss me off.
As somebody who owns a metal fabrication business, €300k for something like this is an utter joke. I’d be laughing all the way to the bank if I got half that.
But the real gangsters are the ones charging a couple of hundred thousand to store it ‘post Covid pre installation’
I mean really, with a few well positioned cuts, and sleeves for rejoining on installation it would take up no space.
People see government and then see central bank on an email and just count their lucky stars.
Louise Bourgeois for toddlers
#
Why are they outsourcing ART to an English company?
How can the central bank not anticipate VAT? Also makes choosing a non Irish, no even an eu company worse.
Covid delay resulted in “additional professional services costs”. What possible professional services were needed because of a covid delay? I get storage costs, and maybe builders costs aswell, but is professional services an additional fee to the artist.
Also how funny is it that they chose a “Rothschild” for the sculpture for the central bank.
Nah man this is some banan shit 😂 stuff made of colored pvc pipes for a price of a 3 bed house in Dublin outskirts really?
How does everything end up costing more than the initial price tag? Just give the right price on procurement, there should be consequences for quoting false costs.
[Here’s another Irish sculptor](https://thewhitethorngallery.ie/john-coll/) who does public art pieces. Just in case the Central Bank decides to mix it up next time, and wants to pick a sculptor who doesn’t work in the medium of scaffold piping.
That’s just a bit of scaffolding with different coloured electrical tape! Any welder or scafolder would do that for a €100 and a pack of JPS nixer and be done on a Saturday afternoon
Will they be getting one for outside the children’s hospital too ?
I’m no art expert, but I dare say, this looks like an unfinished Gazebo installation
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This would cost 100€ tops.
It saddens me to think of the bike shelter we could have built with that money.
“sculpture”
I thought it was some kind of discarded construction equipment the contractors forgot to remove.
6 meters of scaffold pole is 40 euro.
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Scaffold pole inflation has been crazy the last couple of years
Bring back the Golden Goolie.
This is the funniest bit:
“The bank also said there were additional costs related to VAT on UK invoices, which were not anticipated when the initial price was estimated in 2015”
“Motherfucking VAT, how does it work?” – The Central Bank
Who paid for it
https://preview.redd.it/ekjzcnyqjeue1.png?width=730&format=png&auto=webp&s=6884cabd319e5bc9a2f4f7a497de8d76ac7a3040
She made so much money out of this, she did exactly the same one in London.
Good value for the public finances.. …….. /s
€600,000….
If you told me that was a recycled old climbing frame from a playground I’d believe it.
Fuck me….
The artist….telling her mates how she robbed a bank
600k for a bunch of sticks stuck together? Fuck me
There’s art, abstract art and whatever this classifies as. Money laundering?
What even is this sculpture? It doesn’t spark joy.
Inb4: “Akht-ually have any of you been involved in public finance projects? Then stop criticising the government!”
Corruption of rampant nowadays it’s crazy
Can I please stop paying so much income tax to fund this shite.
Even the initial price tag is a rip off. How are things like this getting approval
Crann an Óir is iconic. That’s an eyesore
I’d bet even art lovers have no idea what half these nonsense things are. 600k for a scaffolding pole.
I’ve seen more impressive money bar/jungle gym setups
The builder’s fee was 70k. Let that sink in.
The median salary in Ireland is around 45k.
So the builder got paid 60% more than the median *annual* salary for a job that couldn’t take more than a couple of *weeks*. This is besides any other additional fees they may have also charged, or any profit they made from the cost of the materials.
Artist Eva Rothschild. Oh I see.
It’s becoming a new normal in Ireland to expect these types of projects to come in way beyond any estimate or value for the overall cost.
Only lads benefiting are the ones getting the contracts and complacency means there’s fuck all consequences.
It’s not really her art unless she’s up there on a scaffold welding it herself.
Rothschild was selected for Ireland’s 2019 bienalle exhibition. It was the worst of the 5 ones I’ve seen totally unremarkable and said absolutely nothing that it was trying to pretend it was
Voting for corruption unsurprisingly bring lots of corruption. It seems like we need to work on this like Ted and Dougal with the cows in the caravan… 😆
been there, it’s a frigging daddy long leg
>more than double its initial price tag
are we meant to be shocked by this?
What a waste of money
Just bizarre. Such open corruption
> €250,000 was spent on design and build costs
What the fuck it is literally just scaffold poles welded together.
I wonder the high price have anything to do with the artist being a Rothschild ?
There should be a spending limit on “creative sculptures”, do we not have a tariff policy on expenditure…
€600,000.00+ for that absolute monstrosity is fucking insane.
Just another example of taxpayer funds being pissed away into the abyss.
The Boom is back, baby !!!!!
“a really strong and lasting engagement with the public is possible”
What a load of utter codswallop
The amount of money being wasted by our govt is really starting to piss me off.
As somebody who owns a metal fabrication business, €300k for something like this is an utter joke. I’d be laughing all the way to the bank if I got half that.
But the real gangsters are the ones charging a couple of hundred thousand to store it ‘post Covid pre installation’
I mean really, with a few well positioned cuts, and sleeves for rejoining on installation it would take up no space.
People see government and then see central bank on an email and just count their lucky stars.
Louise Bourgeois for toddlers
#
Why are they outsourcing ART to an English company?
How can the central bank not anticipate VAT? Also makes choosing a non Irish, no even an eu company worse.
Covid delay resulted in “additional professional services costs”. What possible professional services were needed because of a covid delay? I get storage costs, and maybe builders costs aswell, but is professional services an additional fee to the artist.
Also how funny is it that they chose a “Rothschild” for the sculpture for the central bank.
Nah man this is some banan shit 😂 stuff made of colored pvc pipes for a price of a 3 bed house in Dublin outskirts really?
How does everything end up costing more than the initial price tag? Just give the right price on procurement, there should be consequences for quoting false costs.
[Here’s another Irish sculptor](https://thewhitethorngallery.ie/john-coll/) who does public art pieces. Just in case the Central Bank decides to mix it up next time, and wants to pick a sculptor who doesn’t work in the medium of scaffold piping.
That’s just a bit of scaffolding with different coloured electrical tape! Any welder or scafolder would do that for a €100 and a pack of JPS nixer and be done on a Saturday afternoon
Will they be getting one for outside the children’s hospital too ?
I’m no art expert, but I dare say, this looks like an unfinished Gazebo installation
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