Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships

9:00 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

I think there are a number of aspects to it. First of all, there is the assessment, which we undertake, to assess whether we should build the school in the first place. That is the cost-benefit analysis.

Secondly, it is whether the PPP option versus the traditionally procured option makes sense, and that is the public sector benchmark. We now publish the public sector benchmark. I think within the pack there are examples of that from the different sectors that are available. We have committed to and we have set out, in our response to the report, that we are in favour of publishing the post-project reviews so that people can look and then see in detail.