Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

We often warn in this House of the danger of moneylenders and loan sharks. Is the Taoiseach alarmed that some PPPs are much more expensive than the public sector component? The Kilcock-Kinnegad section, for example, cost €1.1 million less per kilometre than the private sector section of that project. Is there any measure to end this type of gross profiteering from the private sector? How will a PPP work, for example, in regard to building, as proposed by Government, a prison on the Dublin-Meath border? Will it be responsible for security and maintenance or just for construction?

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