A court has heard that shoddy workmanship in a project delivered "at breakneck speed" was responsible for serious and extensive defects at a North Dublin school constructed in 2009 by a Tyrone based building company.
Accepting legal liability for the defects Western Building Systems said it believed that "all or most moral responsibility" for what happened lay with the Minister for Education. It said the defects were the result of "shoddy workmanship" incurred on a project delivered "at breakneck speed". It has also disputed what it says is a "vastly exaggerated damages claim".
Western Building Systems said that, as well as moral responsibility, the "excessive" cost of remediation should be attributed to the minister. It questioned whether an overriding preoccupation with ensuring that the works were delivered on time might have led to a blind eye being turned. "A programme that has to be delivered at breakneck speed carries risk, and the most obvious risk was shoddy workmanship," counsel for the company told the court.The company accepts that a great many of the defects are the result of shoddy workmanship, for which WBS subcontractors were responsible. It acknowledged that the "many failures" were "extremely serious".
Don’t worry … the governments magic money tree to the rescue. 3.5 million to build it but 11.5 to fix it …
Pay peanuts you get monkeys!
I assume the builder quoted for shoddy work ,knowing they had a reduced window and the minister agents were aware of this.
When the Dept of Education insits you take the cheapest tender for works to be carried out...that's going to happen, along with cronyism- it's a recipe for more tax payers money to be creamed.
A duty of care went out the window here. They compromised their operation & obviously thought they could collect the cash but were indemnified caused they warned their client. They should have known better!
Should it not be workpersonship
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