Mr. Kevin Meaney:

Similar to traditionally procured projects the introductory guidelines guide the first stage of an assessment of the need of a project or a piece of infrastructure. At that point, the sponsoring agency, in consultation with the approving authority if it is a Department, would make a decision on whether they wish to go down the traditional procurement route or to use a PPP model. As we set out in our opening statement, at that point there is a PPP assessment again and they would link in with the NDFA to see if THE project is suitable and could it prove viable.