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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50563977 [bbc.com]

An inquiry has begun into how staff at the Irish parliament spent more than €1m (£857,000) on a printer that was too big to fit into the building.

The printer, measuring 2.1m (6ft 8in) high and 1.9m (6ft 2 in) wide, was bought last year at a cost of €808,000.

When officials realised it would not fit, they spent an additional €236,000 tearing down walls and embedding structural steel to house the machine.

The printer was placed in storage at a cost of €2,000 a month during the work.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/works-of-at-least-230-000-required-to-fit-printer-in-oireachtas-1.4092366 [irishtimes.com]

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