GJH
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Part of the problem is that the public sector is tied down by legislation which it has to comply to, legislation which does not apply in the case of friends/volunteers doing it themselves. Presumably there will be minimum standards which the latter have to comply with but that may well be too low for a facility to be used by the general public rather than club members.Well, definitely doesn't suprise me if it's Irish !
The point being that the usual public sector/council/public body way of doing things beggers belief. Our small stop would have cost multi thousands if they did it, consultancy, h&s bullshit, over engineering and general wastage is obscene.
Ours is now used very frequently, it's free or a donation to our club.... To date we've recouped the initial investment a few times over. We didn't design it to make money, rather a service for like minded individuals.
Isn't there something of a conflict between those two paragraphs?I'm not a public sector knocker, rather a businessman who sees first hand how ridiculous amounts of money is squandered and if it was run as a business it would have gone tits up years ago. It's OUR money they waste.
The private sector won't get involved unless there is a route to seeing a return or at least use of the property after a certain period of time....
If the public sector were to spend money without first seeing a return wouldn't that be squandering money?