Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
9:30 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
I can provide a small amount of detail. I am not an expert. According to CSO data from the end of October, the total contractual capital in PPPs at the end of last year was just over €4 billion. Approximately €500 million of that was on-balance sheet and €3.5 billion was off-balance sheet. The unitary charge payments, which are payments by the Government to the private partners and conditional on performance under the contracts, amounted to just under €370 million in 2022.
If the committee needs more information, we can provide it, but I stress that I am not an expert in this area.