Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is pretty obvious at this stage that the legislation is fairly useless and did not do what was intended. Let us consider its definition of a construction contract. Section 2(3) of the Construction Contracts Act states: "A contract between a State authority and its partner in a public private partnership arrangement, as those terms are defined in the State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act 2002, is not a construction contract." Even if this legislation was any good, which it is not, the provision was never going to be applied in this case because the project was a PPP. Is that true?