ESB tried to charge extra €57,000 for wall around government building

An OPW report on a controversial €490,000 boundary wall project said the ESB had tried to charge them an extra €57,000 to divert an electrical cable that was already supposed to be fixed.

The summary report detailed how the original completion date for the project had gone from December 2022 until December 2024 and was dogged by delays and extra costs.

It was critical of the ESB saying the OPW had made payment of €54,000 in March 2023 for electrical works and understood that work on a live cable would start at once.

It did not begin until September though, which meant the actual reconstruction works on the unsafe wall at Lansdowne House in Dublin did not recommence until October.

However, it was quickly halted again with the report saying another section of live cable was discovered beneath the wall at the Workplace Relations Commission headquarters.

It said: “It should be noted that this remaining section of high voltage cable was outlined within the original … diversion…

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