Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

11:00 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

Clearly, the commercial sensitivity declines. Obviously we are in the market at the moment - we have bundle 3 under way and we are going towards bundles 4 and 5. We have to work that through. Obviously the Comptroller and Auditor General has access to all of the information in the PSB. We would acknowledge that it loses its currency after a period of time and we are giving consideration to an appropriate timescale. I would like to be able to be definitive about the timescale, but I cannot give a definitive statement about the timescale. We have been reading the transcripts from the committee's recent hearings about PPP projects generally and we are very conscious of the demands and the suggestions the committee is making in this regard and we are actively considering them.