Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in. I will be brief. The Minister obviously cannot comment on the specifics of the judicial review, but how did he not know about this before he came in here today? Why did his officials not tell him? Was he told about the risk of this before he pulled the PPP project? I understand the Minister's rationale for pulling the project. I wish the Department had never gone ahead with it in the first place because it is poor value for money. Given all these PPPs have been or are being reviewed, does that mean PPP is dead as a delivery route? An element of uncertainty has been injected into it because of this ministerial review.