Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On public private partnerships, the TII has had its reviews. It is an issue to which we will return as it is in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. It is very well for TII to say it had value for money, but the committee cannot endorse that view if we do not have the information from which it derived that conclusion. That is only an assertion from my perspective as Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts. TII speaks of commercial sensitivity; when does commercially sensitive information become no longer commercially sensitive? What is the TII's rule of thumb for that? If TII did something 20 years ago, would it still tell me it is commercially sensitive? What is TII's guiding principle? Is it for as long as the contract is in existence? What are the witnesses' views on this? When, after the passage of time, does something cease to be commercially sensitive?

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