Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Public Private Partnerships: Discussion
1:30 pm
Mr. Kevin Meaney:
There are two higher education bundles. Initially there was one and it was split into two around 2020. The initial decision on those was taken in 2015 and 2016. They faced some challenge in some of those technological universities of getting approval. Some projects could not go ahead around 2010 because there was a lack of Exchequer funds for capital projects then. Maybe through that lens, PPP was seen as a more secure means for those particular projects. They are in process. Bundle 1 is mostly delivered and bundle 2 is in active procurement at this point.