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 is a fair view. I hear what the Comptroller and Auditor General is saying. The cost of preparing the bids for the consortia are greater and that, obviously, increases the incentive for them to challenge if they are unsuccessful. Everything else being equal, one would expect that there will be more challenges.

We just do not have the full range or database which looks at it because there is a lot of legal action. Somebody might threaten to take action against the State in respect of something and then it is dropped pretty quickly or we decide we will settle, or we go all the way, we challenge and we win or we lose. Sadly, there is a lot of activity down in those courts.

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