Bollards a $30k fix

THE cost to repair three chauffeur cars damaged by bollards around Parliament House has been tallied at nearly $30,000.

Comcover, the self-managed insurance fund for government agencies, covered the cost of $28,935.31 after the Finance Department met the excess payment of $500 a vehicle.

A Senate committee in February heard the steel bollards – which retreat into the ground to allow cars to drive up to the building – were switched from automatic operation to human control while security works were carried out.