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

Mr. Robert Watt:

That will depend on decisions the Government takes on future projects. The commitments set out are in respect of projects we have already built and are being operated. In time, as the unitary payments for the original projects fall away and disappear, they may be replaced by new projects and some of the slack taken up. What we have set out, I hope reasonably clearly, is that we are cautious about PPPs. There is a new environment and we are in a position where the Exchequer is in a position to fund projects in the traditional manner. In time, we will probably see the overall commitments number peaking. There are a number of projects in the pipeline which have not yet been finalised and once they are completed, we will start to make unitary payments which will get up to a peak figure of about €400 million.

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