Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
11:00 am
Mr. Paddy Howard:
I really do not want to give a short answer. The State is not the one that morally has an issue here. As the NDFA has explained, we expect to be paying for these facilities.
I wish to introduce another point because we have talked around PPPs without getting into a discussion on PPPs. Please bear in mind there are different approaches to procurement. The particular issue or benefit of PPPs is the kind of way in which the State specifies very precisely what it wants and then can leave the operational detail as something that is a matter of satisfying the contract. As has been clear from the engagement, that is the framework. My perspective is one of considering the policy framework to see if there is something that we can change. When we reach the end of this process, I expect we will conduct a review to see if there is anything out there. To be frank, without looking through that, we have not seen anything yet that suggests to us that a change is necessary in the overall policy framework.
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