Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

11:00 am

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think that is key. As someone involved in these matters in my constituency and from commenting on them in the Oireachtas, I can see a clear thread of lessons across these different activities that should be picked up and made public. I hope the report we mentioned earlier will allow that to happen.

I wish to discuss PPPs in the educational sphere. The Comptroller and Auditor General made a point about post-implementation evaluation. From an educational point of view we are moving into future bundles of PPPs and a number of bundles - bundles 1 and 2 for schools - are already implemented. I ask Mr. Ó Foghlú to respond to the observation that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is not aware of work that has been done to look at post-implementation review and whether the actual costs and the benefits that materialised were in line with original assumptions.

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