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. Michael Kennedy:

Deputy Connolly mentioned variations. They are things that we ourselves determine, the PPP company could make suggestions, but they are things that we would look at and want to apply to a scheme. I do not know all the variations on a scheme but I know that there was a junction where an improved layout had to be considered. It was a requirement over and above what the PPP company had bid for. We specified that after it came to light that the initial design was not going to be quite as good as we would like it to be. If we wanted to show signage, there may have been additional lighting requirements under environmental considerations, these are the types of variations which are things that we instruct on, and can happen on any road scheme, whether it was procured traditionally or through PPP.

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