Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships

9:00 am

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

I will quote something that Mr. Watt wrote last September, seven months ago, which he referred to a minute ago. It is paragraph 4.46 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. He stated "no post project reviews have been published." He made a recommendation and the response from Mr. Watt was "Part agreed." It could have been last August but was probably last September at the latest. Mr. Watt wrote, "A requirement to publish post project reviews (subject to redaction of any commercially sensitive information) will be included in a revision of the Public Spending Code currently underway and in revised PPP guidance to be issued in the near future." Mr. Watt wrote that in his response seven months ago. He is here today, saying that it is coming out in the near future, seven months later. It is still in the near future. When I would have read that last September, when this report was published, I would have expected to see that before Christmas, but we are here now at the end of March, seven months on. When is the near future? Mr. Watt's official response was that it would be the near future. Is there a date for it?

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