Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My understanding is that Dublin City Council has been one of the leading proponents of using PPPs. It has been appointed to act as the lead local authority for the delivery of the social housing PPP programme in respect of this first project bundle with Cork County Council appointed to act as the lead local authority in respect of the second project bundle. The identification and selection of sites for the third project bundle is currently under way and is expected to be finalised in coming months. One can consider how PPPs have worked in delivering schools, for example, where one gets developers who have the capacity to deliver quickly on real scale and to help finance projects. We should learn lessons and take what has worked and what has not worked with some of those PPPs and apply that to delivering social housing; that is all we are trying to do. If there are specific issues in respect of sites and cases, I would be happy to hear about them.