Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Public Private Partnerships: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

That brings me to my next question. One of the things that brought all of this very much into public view was when Carillion collapsed while it had the PPP deal for building six schools in Wicklow, Wexford, Tipperary and others. What is the evaluation of all that now, because it is obviously a clear risk? We got a contractor which then collapsed because of its connection with a bigger company which turned out to be in very serious financial trouble. We were then left with a serious problem. Another contractor was got in the end. I think Woodvale Construction from the North finished up the work. However, there were question marks and maybe Mr. Dorgan can fill me in on what happened. It was originally for design, build and maintenance and then there were questions on who was going to maintain them afterwards. What happened there?

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