Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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Yes, but it could be also be looked at as letting the Government off by doing them as PPPs so it does not have to make the investment that is needed at a given time and instead the Departments have to use up their funding on an ongoing basis in terms of the unitary payments? I know the way the Department is looking at it but the way I am looking at it is that when there are cash-strapped universities, and we all know about the €309 million hole in further and higher education as it is, it seems that this is a constraint rather than what it is intended to do.

I also cannot understand why when we are supposed to have billions of euro of investment in housing, we would do social housing on a PPP basis. It just does not make sense. It is not like expertise or anything else is needed. Many of these projects are just duplications.