Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, 40, discovers he has the metabolism of a 53-year-old during ‘Operation Transformation’ last night on RTÉ 1
One thing that I don’t like to see
Is a Taoiseach whose younger than me
But now I’m quite glad
Leo’s health is so bad
The computer says he’s fifty three.
John Moynes
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RTE will try anything and everything to keep giving that bloody program a headline. Only thing missing is a Dermot Bannon cameo.
We need a cameo from the new National Children’s Hospital as it keeps ‘piling on the pounds’…
Boom
or is BAM!
yes. that aligns with what was said to the PAC. BAM aren’t the only people that are building the hospital:
Construction costs:
•€14.5m for decanting costs in relation to the site
•€5.8m for aspergillosis, which is about infection control in the hospital during the course of construction
•€550m for main contractor BAM
•€177m for the Jones Group
•€157m for Mercury, another contractor
•There is also an extra contractor providing lifts
So far, that adds up to €890m, and is described as the main construction costs.
A further construction cost added on is:
•€53.4m for outpatient and urgent care centres in Tallaght and Connolly
That comes to €963.7m, plus VAT at €130.1m.
That gives a total figure of €1,093.8m (or €1.0938 billion) as the gross construction costs of the project.
Other costs related to the construction are as follows:
•€87.9m to equip the hospital with MRIs and furniture
•€13.6m for planning and development fees
•€13.6m for development levies payable to various local authorities
•€71.3m for design team fees
•€51.3m as a contingency
•€66.04m to cover the cost of running the National Paediatric Development Board Company for the entire course of the project, and their legal and professional fees
These costs add to €290.1m. The gross of these costs – including VAT of €49m – is €339.1m.
Added to the construction costs of €1.0938bn, it results in a building cost of €1.433bn.
Other costs are being handled by the Children’s Hospital Group, outside of the construction. These are:
•€18m for the Children’s Research and Innovation Centre
•€97m for information and communications technology in relation to computers
•€86m for the children’s hospital integration programme, for the integration of the Children’s Hospital at Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght
•€52m for a new electronic healthcare records system
•Approximately €40m of a write-off paid for the Mater Hospital site, which was the original first option that did not proceed
“Those costs come to €293m, giving a grand total, as of today, of €1.7 billion,” said Mr Fleming.
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2019/0131/1026666-pac-childrens-hospital/
Our Great Leader is a bit of a gym bunny or so I heard on the wireless this morning.
I think they said “jam bunny”. The camera adds 10 pounds to be fair. One camera was enough.
someone has been telling porkie pies about his aerobic regime
but the double chiny chin chin was already telling me he truth
Absolutely, he’s the Ginny Sacromoni of the FGers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9cNY-8lIfA
He looks like PC Reg Hollis in that photo.
By my calculations hes aging at a rate of 13.2% above the norm. Going by average life expectancy, he should be dead in 16 years and 3 months, give or take.
we’ll save a fortune in pensions so.
Are those readings reliable? When I started weight training my reading on the macheen in my gym went from metabolic age of 24 to 36.
Maybe Leo is all about the gainz right now… or maybe he just lives on take-aways.
Not really – they’re basically the same as BMI. So it factors in your age, weight and height. I guess you were bulking up so upping both your BMI and your metabolic age despite probably getting healthier. I have very little faith in BMI (its fine for most people but there’s a lot its really not good for) and zero faith in metabolic age…
Duhh, The clue was in his soft chubby cream bun face.
That’s an excellent way to describe him
And if he gets sick he’ll waltz into a private hospital, oblivious of the mess in state hospitals, and wonder why the nurses are striking.
Source is reliable.
He did not take it well. He may be sporty now but a few years ago he was quite flabby. I wonder do this kind of change take longer. Some people are just more prone to putting on weight.
A lot of people, despite being up very early in the morning, find it difficult to incorporate the gym into their long working day and family responsibilities – or indeed cannot afford the membership fees so snatch some exercise time in the park / beach / mountains. But carry on there Leo with your PR stunts.
I found since quitting the gym that I enjoy running in the park on weekends a lot more. I actually feel fitter and my distance is improving each week and I lost a little weight, whereas using a treadmill in the gym made me HATE running and I was not covering as much distance. Maybe its natural habitat and all of that stimulation.
Leo should run in the park with a backpack on, you lose more pounds than in the gym.
need to be careful with that – gave myself a recurring back problem doing that, took me a while to cop what was causing it. get a weighted vest (can get a decent one for €40), much better.
So that hot bod does require maintenance…
I had wondered.
I cannot fathom using a treadmill in the gym. Might as well be in hell.
it was invented as an instrument of torture in British prisons originally, plus I think it messes up your gait
@canapesforleo
I thought he’d be a champ in the spin class at the gym. Nah.
Lord God, where did he get the workout gear? Lidl?
Wha exactly do you mean by that?
Tread very carefully, I don’t take criticism of Lidl lightly
I ran a marathon in Lidl runners once.
I ate a marathon in Lidl once.
I think I’ve walked a marathon in Lidl by now.
Background snicker.
RTE providing oral services yet again to the gubbamint.
Nothing will make that clown look like a mammal. I’d say he has to sleep in the hot press to give him the required body temperature to operate in our climate.
Too many Hereford steaks! (does anyone know what they are?)