Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Rather than try to answer within a minute, I will send the Deputy a note on the public private partnerships to come on stream. I will go through a couple very quickly. I expect the contracts on the N11 project to be signed within weeks. There was a slight difficulty in regard to foreshore licensing in respect of the N25. That is being concluded and I expect the contract to be signed within weeks. As the Deputy knows, the tendering process for the Grangegorman project has been delayed because of legal proceedings. That is why it is likely to be next year before construction commences. Primary care centres are not mainly being provided through PPPs but there is a bundle of PPPs that will provide a number of them. I will send the Deputy the list. I am working on the capital programme with colleagues. While I am looking at PPPs as part of it, I want to have a ceiling on the proportion of the total capital that goes to bullet payments for PPPs. We will debate this in more detail and I will explain it further when we publish and launch the capital plan in due course.

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