Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund
9:30 am
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The officials provided us with a note on PPP costs. It states that the reduction of €5 million relative to the Estimate provision was primarily due to delays in higher education infrastructure public private partnerships. How is that process operating now on the whole? Looking at a number of campuses across the country, some of them have strategic plans dating back a number of years, and there is a carryover. Now that there is investment in place, not only for higher education directly but also through the PPP process, what uplift are we seeing in terms of campuses being renovated, remodelled or expanded?