Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

Before I ask my colleagues, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Curran, to comment, I want to say that each of the three methods is about first-time situations. The Deputy asked which of them works best. If we are enhancing an existing premises of our own on our own land, it calls out for a capital plan investment that we should do. In other cases, we try to reduce, mitigate or share the risk by operating in a PPP environment. From a cost perspective, we enter into operational leases when the opportunity arises. We do not always have a choice because all three methods do not always present themselves. People might not be ready for leases, or people might not want to work on PPPs with us.

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