Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Public Accounts Committee
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011
12:30 pm
Mr. Steven Burgess:
That is correct. Across all the deals that have taken place in Ireland during the past ten years, they would all involve international equity investors. The contractors are by and large almost exclusively Irish and that is a difficulty for us looking forward. We talked earlier about the marketing of the stimulus package and attracting equity investors to invest in Ireland. No different than our colleagues on the NTMA debt bench going to market Irish bonds but the delivery vehicle will be the Irish construction industry and that has taken a significant knock in the past number of years. The CSO's report published in the past few days shows how much the productive output of construction has dropped.