David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that we will have a full day on PPPs and that the Accounting Officer for the Department of Education and Skills will be in attendance. As the Chairman knows, Carillion has collapsed and the construction of a number of schools is on hold as a result. In advance of that sitting and that hearing, can I ask Mr. McCarthy whether the Comptroller and Auditor General's office has done any work on public private partnerships in the past? Does it have a document that it might be able to present to us? We had some discussion on the issue before in respect of different Departments. When the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform were before the committee there was some discussion on whether the processes in place to evaluate the effectiveness and value for money of public private partnerships are what they should be. Obviously that will inform the questions which we put, but if there were any reports produced or research carried out in the past which would help us it would be useful if they were given to the committee. I am not sure whether any special reports or reporting on PPPs were carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General's office, but if there were-----