OPW history book to go €350,000 over budget
A HISTORY of the Office of Public Works to be published this year will cost the taxpayer €350,000 more than was originally envisaged.
The OPW agreed a two-year contract in 2002 with a professional historian to write a history of the organisation at a total cost of €76,184.
However, when the full extent of archival work needed became apparent, the OPW agreed a further extension until January 2006 at a further cost of €78,470.
No signed contract went beyond this point. However the project has been continually extended by the OPW and will be finally completed this year.
The final cost is now expected to be in the region of €420,000.
irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0104/1224286701107.html
Nearly half a million to produce a coffee table book about a relatively boring public body that no one will every read. Christ. Could have been done by a bunch of history students over their summer holidays for about 10k.
johnnyskeleton:
A HISTORY of the Office of Public Works to be published this year will cost the taxpayer €350,000 more than was originally envisaged.
The OPW agreed a two-year contract in 2002 with a professional historian to write a history of the organisation at a total cost of €76,184.
However, when the full extent of archival work needed became apparent, the OPW agreed a further extension until January 2006 at a further cost of €78,470.
No signed contract went beyond this point. However the project has been continually extended by the OPW and will be finally completed this year.
The final cost is now expected to be in the region of €420,000.
irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0104/1224286701107.html
Nearly half a million to produce a coffee table book about a relatively boring public body that no one will every read. Christ. Could have been done by a bunch of history students over their summer holidays for about 10k.
OPW loves OPM!