Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

Progress has been made with the public private partnership system in the school building programme; it has been implemented. I am open to the use of infrastructure bonds in that context. One great difficulty in the PPP context in relation to schools is that, in general, PPP finance must be used for new projects. To attract PPP finance, a project must not involve refurbishment or an extension such as the building of a hall but must be a full, new project.

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