Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
12:40 pm
Ms Geraldine Tallon:
-----and so I am not stating one can only get value through one system. I am telling the Deputy that we carry out site-specific and design-specific analysis in each case and that whichever form of procurement provides the best whole-life cost assessment will be the direction in which we will go. Both models are widely used, not just in Ireland but elsewhere.