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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) Peter Burke: There is a more significant risk in one that is backed by a PPP.
- 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) Peter Burke: That judgment can be very difficult when we are talking about risk transfer and traffic guarantee payments. In terms of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway or the Limerick tunnel and the potential huge risk to which the taxpayer is exposed, that is a huge challenge to meet.
- 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) Peter Burke: It is where it has a direct impact on the Exchequer on an annual basis. If we are talking about €1.2 billion in 2016 and €4.6 billion in 2017, that is a huge sum of money.
- 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) Peter Burke: Yes, but if doing it in an efficient manner has the potential to reduce our capacity to build more, we have to question 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) Peter Burke: It is our responsibility as elected representatives to get the best value for money. We cannot just take a blasé approach and say, "Who does not want to build a road?".
- 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) Peter Burke: We are compensating them for that.
- 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) Peter Burke: We are in those two cases.
- 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) Peter Burke: I want to be clear about that. I am aware of the payback for the private sector in terms of motorways. There is a concrete projection of traffic flow etc., but how does that work for schools?
- 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) Peter Burke: Resource constraints were cited as a reason the planned review into a pilot schools bundle was not carried out. What was the reason for that?
- 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) Peter Burke: It was supposed to be about 2013.
- 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) Peter Burke: Has that gone to tender?
- 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) Peter Burke: When is the contract expected to be in place?
- 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) Peter Burke: What was the outcome of the criminal courts review? Does any of the witnesses have an answer on that?
- 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) Peter Burke: Have any significant issues been flagged by the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- 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) Peter Burke: We are back to zero.
- 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) Peter Burke: That is okay. It is important to get confidence behind these projects for the taxpayer and the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is not good enough that we are putting pressure on people at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts to publish post-project reviews that are already completed. We need to be in possession of this information to adjudicate on value for money.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Regulations (27 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 513. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to change the system for driver tests (details supplied). [13586/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (27 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 554. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of progress made by her Department in order to find a solution to the current inequitable administering of commercial rates between private early years' service providers for ECCE and those offering full day care services and after school services; the interactions between her Department and other Departments and agencies on...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (27 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the European Union (Licensing of Large-scale Extraction of Peat) Regulations 2016 will be signed into law; the status of interactions to date between his Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA and the Office of the Attorney General in relation to these regulations; the outstanding issues which are delaying...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (28 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [14344/18]