Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Deputy Verona Murphy has not joined us yet. Neither have Deputies Munster, Hourigan and Burke. Members are tied up with Dáil duties. If any of them join the meeting, I will invite them to contribute then.
I have some questions, and if the witnesses keep replies to them short, I will work my way through them. My first question is on public private partnerships, PPPs. Last year, the cost of PPPs ran to €148 million. I have a list of them in front of me. That figure increased from €73 million the previous year. Did all of the increase of €75 million relate to extra costs due to a drop in traffic volumes owing to Covid?