Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Companies of all types can go bust and as the Minister for Education and Skills pointed out, we are in a more favourable position because we have not paid over the money yet, and we have ownership of the schools. I am often a sceptic when it comes to PPPs. There is a role for PPPs to provide infrastructure in different ways. We built almost all our intercity motorways by means of PPPs. Had we done that by traditional methods, it would have taken very much longer. The party opposite made the right decision in doing that-----

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