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
Mr. Eoin Dorgan:
That is really a matter for the companies in tendering. We will do our value for money test and if the value for money supports the project to go ahead, it must be assumed there will be a profit. As the Deputy says, a public-private partnership is not going to do this without building in an element of profit. It goes back to the broader point and the Deputy's concern that, even in traditional procurement when people are tendering, there is a profit margin there as well.
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