How £3.3m. contract cost an extra £11m.
Friday 9th April 2010, 2:30PM BST.
The New Jetty pilings – back in shape after a 333% overspend. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0948406)
SERIOUS shortcomings in the way the States handled the New Jetty project are revealed today.
It went more than four times over its original budget.
And the Public Accounts Committee still has concerns about the way the States manages capital projects despite a series of reforms.
Reports from the PAC and Public Services Department about the jetty work, pictured above, are published in today’s Billet d’Etat.
The original budget for the work was £3.3m. but it ended up costing £14.3m. after it was discovered that the jetty needed more repairs than originally thought and after a long legal dispute over costs with the contractor.
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No matter guys we can just put up tax on a pint to cover it eh!
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That would sound like a joke if you were not correct.
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Did the legal costs really amount to £3,400,000? This is an outrageous sum. To whom was it paid? Transparancy? Huh, I don’t expect we’ll ever find out.
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How easy it is to spend someone else’s money.
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Lawyers fees, absolutely scandalous.
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That will be one of the reasons why we never hear a peep out of the old ‘hero’s’ from the Board of Administration and the States top bench
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This is just one overspend of a long line under the previous Board of Administration and guess what, ” It was nobody’s fault”,according to the PAC.
Who led that Committee, the old Board of Administration, deputy Roger Berry and our current Chief Minister Lyndon Trott was also there as a board member. They ensured that they managed to spend the whole of the Ports Holding account and more before Deputy Berry failed to stand again in the next election. Other overspends were St Sampson’s Marina, the St Sampson’s water main, The Airport terminal etc etc. Of course those will be nobody’s fault either, because a States department is investigating a States department. Guernsey has no freedom of information act, so the public will only learn what the Public Accounts Committee prints in their reports. This type of opaque, nobodies fault type Government,must change its ways, if it is to remain credible.
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There must be someone accounable, just think what that money could be used for, hospital, schools and are dear o a p s, closed shop again, disgracefull
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