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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Public accountability must mean that these reviews can be examined by external bodies. They are carried out internally, but can they be made public? Can they be sent to this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Given that we want as much information as possible, I ask Mr. Cahillane to do more than consider it. Could he send them-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: There is no reason it cannot be shared.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Okay. Perhaps they could be sent on for the next day. I would like to ask Mr. Watt about risk. When we discuss PPPs, we hear an awful lot about the risk to the private contractor. What risk is there in building a school? Is it that the pupils will not turn up? What would it be? I am struggling to try to understand how there is a risk to a private company in building a school.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Would Mr. Watt genuinely consider maintenance of a school to be a risk?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Is that not what insurance is for?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: There is also a risk to the State. I would argue that the biggest risk with these PPPs is often to the taxpayer. Projects relating to the construction of six schools collapsed because of Carillion. I have looked at some of the press reports on that. Obviously, that was not a very good exercise by the Department. I imagine that it was not very desirable in any event. I am sure Mr. Ó...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Are we now caught in a legal wrangle with that company? To Mr. Ó Foghlú's knowledge, is there going to be any added cost to the Department because of the collapse of these projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Has an assessment been done regarding whether there will be any additional cost to the Department as a result of the collapse of the company and these specific projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: I know other members want to come in. I will come back in later.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: We may be interrupted by a vote. I do not wish to be unfair to anybody. It is correct that we are robust and that we ask the appropriate questions. I will stick to the issue of PPPs but I believe we have a responsibility to reflect on today's meeting to determine whether we have made progress in terms of getting value for money. There is a commitment to publish the post-project reviews....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: I agree. The Dáil has agreed the motion and the Taoiseach and the Secretary General of his Department should appear before us. We agreed to invite Mr. Watt, Mr. Concannon, head of the strategic communications unit, and Mr. Fraser to appear before us . As Mr. Watt is here today, will he confirm that he will appear before us on that specific issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: We were reliably told that the last thing Mr. Watt had was an ego so we did not have to reference him specifically.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Despite the robustness of some of the exchanges earlier, Mr. Watt stated that he values public scrutiny and public accountability, and I do not doubt that. Obviously, that is why we are here to examine and probe the use of taxpayers' money and whether we get value for money or not. My first question is an obvious one. I was making the point earlier that I have not seen any of these...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Is it fair to say as well, and this is not peculiar to Mr. Watt, it was not always the view of the Department that post-project reviews should be published?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Is that because Mr. Watt obviously sees value in post-project reviews?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Data evidence, and I would imagine learnings, would flow from it as well. We can learn from it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Were there mistakes identified in the existing ten or 11 reviews, which we have not seen them but Mr. Watt has seen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: I am coming to them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Learnings can lead to changes which could then save money.