Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting

9:30 am

Mr. Brian O'Connell:

Finglas primary care centre came up earlier and it is No. 2 on the list, as far as I remember. It has gone down the route of pursuing, initially, through the operational lease mechanism. It would have been included in the first advert. It did not get any viable returns so as it was such a high priority it was brought through the Exchequer-funded capital plan route.

The operational lease model has, in its entirety, been very successful. There have been 104 delivered to date through the operational lease nationally. It has been a very good mechanism to deliver in the round. Due to demographics and availability of sites, there will be certain areas where we will not be able to deliver via the operational lease model. We have either added them to the bundle of PPPs, which was pursued with 14 PPPs bundled together off that similar prioritisation list starting from the top down, or, in the rest, we have done a number of them through Exchequer funding as well.