Where were you with this suggestion four years ago?
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Because with PAYE/PRSI etc it would end up costing a lot more than 29 million maybe?
not to mention the cars, running cost, management and another layer of admin.
also pensions, holiday pay, sick pay, but apart from that why oh why didn’t they hire 580 full time drivers
Would they need to have hired 580 drivers though @ 50k a pop.
I think he was just using those figures to use up the €29m
Stop making sense…
The CAO Website brought down by “cyber hackers” :lol: :lol:
“… could be organised crime, really anyone with a grudge against the cao” :lol: :lol:
glad they confirmed it definitely wasn’t caused by so many people trying to log on and check their offers.
fuckin hell
By Shane Phelan Investigative Correspondent
Monday November 08 2010
A historian who has so far been paid €367,870 to write a book on the Office of Public Works (OPW) is to receive a further €39,000 despite failing to deliver the manuscript eight years after it was commissioned.
Dr Desmond McCabe last night broke his silence to defend the much-maligned project – describing as “harrowing” the attention it has received.
Dr McCabe was contracted by the OPW in 2002 to write a history of the organisation within two years at a cost of €76,000.
But eight years on, the text has still to be delivered and Dr McCabe’s wage bill and other expenses have cost taxpayers €367,870, with a further €39,000 to be paid to him next year.
The case has been held up as a striking example of public sector waste since it was revealed in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General last September.
Dr McCabe finally broke his silence on the furore last night, telling the Irish Independent: "The last couple of months have been harrowing for myself and my family.
Dr McCabe said much more work had been involved than was initially anticipated and he denied that the whole project was “ill-conceived”.
He added that a volume of research relating to the “meaning and evolution of St Stephen’s Green” would be ready for publication “in a couple of months”.
Dr McCabe’s comments came as records obtained by the Irish Independent under freedom of information rules show how the project has been beset by delays from the start.
Deadline
Although the OPW has also defended the project in recent public statements, internal correspondence reveals a somewhat different picture, with sharp exchanges between senior OPW officials and Dr McCabe over the delays.
When the initial deadline of January 2004 passed, it was agreed to extend Dr McCabe’s contract by two more years, paying him €39,234 a year. But the new deadline of January 2006 was also missed.
In May 2005, Dr McCabe wrote to Vincent Campbell, the OPW’s director of corporate services, advising him he would need a further year and a half to complete the book. Dr McCabe wrote that the “sheer scale” of the project was the “fundamental reason for the slippage”.
Mr Campbell replied that the project was not “open-ended” and the necessity of completing the manuscript was “critical and urgent”. However, a time extension was agreed, bringing the deadline to September 2007.
But in January 2007, Dr McCabe told the OPW he could not meet the new deadline. In response, Mr Campbell accused Dr McCabe of misleading the OPW at various stages that the target date would be met.
Dr McCabe denied the accusation and said he intended to have the text ready by the end of the year. But again, the deadline was put back, this time to September 2009. This also passed without work being completed.
At a meeting in February this year Dr McCabe said it “would be impossible to complete the writing by the end of 2011”. Mr Campbell said this was “unacceptable”.
In a statement, the OPW said the book would be published by the end of 2011.
A €500,000 tv advertising campaign for the new terminal at Dublin Airport.
What exactly do they need to advertise? You go there when you have a flight booked. There won’t be many choosing to fly abroad because the new terminal is attractive and well publicised (and empty).
Ah that’s just sickening. A history of the OPW, that’ll be a big seller. :rolleyes:
As for Terminal 2 and the DAA, nothing would surprise me. Another big Ceaucescu vanity project for the ‘New Ireland’.
Can’t wait for the IMF to come in to cut these cunts to ribbons. 
I was a temp in OPW head office once. Someone came down to me one day to ask me to order a courier to take an envelope to a building 50 yards away. Money means nothing to these cunts and I’d ray they’re even worse at the top.
Hope you pocketed that money and delivered it yourself.
Like most offices they’d have an account with a courier firm. Makes it easier to rack up costs when you’re not seeing the cash being spent I suppose. My last job was at Dept of Enterprise and the habits were the same there…Always sickened me to see so much waste of money when it was public money. .I did deliver the package myself btw, and many others.
Wouldn’t you think with these guys being tax payers themselves they’d like to see things done efficiently? Maybe I’m giving these clowns too much credit. 
The Donegal By-Election
I doubt there’s much being spent on it by the looks of things. The three main party’s candidates should get their own spin-off show.
Will the Dail be sitting long enough for Pearse Doherty’s maiden speech? Surely they’re on Christmas holidays next week and aren’t back till February?