Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I look forward to dissecting the review. Ironically, I was Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Taoiseach was the Minister and I recall him being very critical of the payments made under schemes such as this. It is unacceptable that there have been no reviews of projects. The Secretary General knows that representatives of Cork Institute of Technology have been before the committee on several occasions. They are among our favourite witnesses and will be back soon. Two of the projects relate to the Maritime Institute which has been funded by way of a PPP since 2004. I have photographs of the building which seems to be in rag order. Has it been inspected? There was to have been a review after ten years.

It seems that the people who were in charge were not qualified. They were brought back by the college subsequent to being let go. They were employed by companies that were subsets of the colleges. It seems that the volume of funding that has gone into them means that there have to be questions asked about the product that has been delivered.