Things that make you go What the F**k?

[DaleCooper]

Cant locate my own post on cocaine/alcohol dangers but note her alcohol blood level wasn't that extreme.

Coroner says she asphyixated after passing out in the toilet due to her posture.



https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/woman-died-in-belfast-nightclub-toilet-from-lethal-drug-mix-inquest-finds/a878025358.html

[Franko]

Waste goes a lot higher

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/companies-which-have-made-millions-from-delayed-a5-road-scheme/a7817510.html

The companies which have earned millions of pounds from the long-delayed A5 road scheme can today be revealed.
In one case, an infrastructure firm received more than £60m in consultancy fees.

Another contractor company has collected over £20m.

The total spend to date on the project - which was originally given the go-ahead in 2007, but has yet to start - has topped £150m.

The 58-mile road from Derry to Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, has been hit by a series of delays.

It was approved again by the Executive in October last year, with the final cost now estimated at £1.7bn.

However, spending on the project has continued to rise, and now stands at £153.7m.

This includes £80.6m on consultants, £56.3m on contractors' fees, £5.8m on geotechnical and archaeology investigations and £5.7m on land costs.


In response to a Freedom of Information request, the department has now revealed the biggest earners from the scheme.

In our request, we asked for a list of those who had received £1m or more.

The biggest recipient is Mouchel Limited, which was later acquired by the WSP Group. Mouchel/WSP has received £63.8m in consultancy fees - more than a third of the total expenditure to date.

Three sets of contractors' fees were paid out to companies which collaborated at various stages of the project.

Around £11m was paid as part of a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, BAM and FP McCann for section one of the scheme, between New Buildings and Sion Mills.

The three civils companies I can almost understand, although no doubt they have filled their boots.

But almost £65million in consultancy fees?

I'd love to see the detail behind those invoices.

I'd also love to financially audit those involved in signing them off as the maths does not stack up here.


Lets go high and call it:

£2000/day for a consultant

There are approx. 250 working days/year

This outfit has invoiced 128 YEARS worth of work*

Or 6 people have been working on this project, full time, at £2k per day for 21 years?

Honestly, our civil service is a total farce.  £65m signed off to an outfit so incompetent, they have been left chasing their tails by a bunch of DUP farmers.


* And still missed the fact that the planning submission didn't mention the Climate Action Plan as it should have.

[Tony Baloney]

Who in the Road Service had family working in Mouchel?

[Munchie]

Said it many times the civil service in this place is not fit for purpose, there must be near total incompetence, there is zero accountability, and when you see things like this there has to be rampant corruption.

[Armagh18]

Waste goes a lot higher

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/companies-which-have-made-millions-from-delayed-a5-road-scheme/a7817510.html

The companies which have earned millions of pounds from the long-delayed A5 road scheme can today be revealed.
In one case, an infrastructure firm received more than £60m in consultancy fees.

Another contractor company has collected over £20m.

The total spend to date on the project - which was originally given the go-ahead in 2007, but has yet to start - has topped £150m.

The 58-mile road from Derry to Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, has been hit by a series of delays.

It was approved again by the Executive in October last year, with the final cost now estimated at £1.7bn.

However, spending on the project has continued to rise, and now stands at £153.7m.

This includes £80.6m on consultants, £56.3m on contractors' fees, £5.8m on geotechnical and archaeology investigations and £5.7m on land costs.


In response to a Freedom of Information request, the department has now revealed the biggest earners from the scheme.

In our request, we asked for a list of those who had received £1m or more.

The biggest recipient is Mouchel Limited, which was later acquired by the WSP Group. Mouchel/WSP has received £63.8m in consultancy fees - more than a third of the total expenditure to date.

Three sets of contractors' fees were paid out to companies which collaborated at various stages of the project.

Around £11m was paid as part of a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, BAM and FP McCann for section one of the scheme, between New Buildings and Sion Mills.

The three civils companies I can almost understand, although no doubt they have filled their boots.

But almost £65million in consultancy fees?

I'd love to see the detail behind those invoices.

I'd also love to financially audit those involved in signing them off as the maths does not stack up here.


Lets go high and call it:

£2000/day for a consultant

There are approx. 250 working days/year

This outfit has invoiced 128 YEARS worth of work*

Or 6 people have been working on this project, full time, at £2k per day for 21 years?

Honestly, our civil service is a total farce.  £65m signed off to an outfit so incompetent, they have been left chasing their tails by a bunch of DUP farmers.


* And still missed the fact that the planning submission didn't mention the Climate Action Plan as it should have.

Madness isn't it

[Munchie]

More Incompetence, but sure Michelle is going to stick it to the British PM today so we are all sorted.