OPW warnt, dass die Mittel für den Hochwasserschutz möglicherweise gekürzt werden müssen, um das Wissenschaftszentrum für Kinder zu finanzieren
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/02/13/flood-defence-funding-may-have-to-be-cut-to-pay-for-childrens-science-centre-opw-warns/
Von denbo786
18 Kommentare
Is it just too simplistic to say the government could allocate another 70 million to pay for the museum?
If only there was a rainy day fund for actual rainy days.
Fuck this government, they are not here for the people.
The irony.
What about all the carbon taxes why cant they be used to pay for flood defenses is that not why we are paying them to protect us from climate change?
Another Springfield day in Ireland 🙌
Considering the office of public works somehow has several thousand employees, despite outsourcing all their work to the private sector at well over budget prices, I’d say we can divert money from this public body to flood defence!
If only we had some big corporations that would setup shop here and pay a lot of taxes
We need people not to get flooded not a children’s science centre. We could do with the Trinity Science Gallery back.
Flood defence funding having to be slashed to cover the cost of a 70mil science centre, meanwhile…
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0201/1556267-ipas-costs/
We can easily afford both just seems like OPW trying to shift the blame onto what some people would see as a vanity project.
We can build flood defences and science centers
Your money is going to prop up private hands in IPAS and HAP payments – there is gonna be an enormous amount of private rentals needing HAP support – expect further cut backs to other services
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These Children’s Science centre guys really need to be told to F off at this stage. They got some agreement 20 plus years ago for a centre that is now not wanted and they won’t leave it go.
I’m not against a science centre in principle but stuff has come in to fill the gaps etc. and needs change.
It is possible to have both. OPW are trying to absolve themselves of their responsibilities.
No shortage of millions when it’s being sent to Ukraine or the world bank though…
They can learn about the effects of mismanagement of flooding fund, lack of maintenance and poor planning that causes flooding in our towns and cities. Then they will drive it as adults in 20 years time
Look at this, our government is fixing the flooding, only a 30 year wait, thanks lads and ladies
Don’t we spend millions a year subsiding dog and horse tracks? Maybe we can take it from that? Or maybe the