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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) Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. Cahillane satisfied that the formula for the calculating risk is the correct one?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General agree?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: We discussed the situation regarding Carillion. I understand that what happened in this regard is not new in that a private investor in a PPP was liquidated. I understand that the all of the projects concerned have been completed and are operational. In such cases, is there an additional indirect cost to the Exchequer? For example, if a party to a PPP housing project goes bust the result...
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Do we have a figure on any of those indirect costs which we may have accrued?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister indicated this morning that the 10% cap would be scrapped. What implications will that have?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: I turn to why we still use PPPs, whatever about ideological opposition to them. I will not argue it but someone could say there was a rationale for PPPs in the economic downturn. However we are getting to a situation in which even that argument no longer holds water when only four or five other European countries use them. The reason other countries do not use them is that there are...
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: My final question is on the variation in costs that can happen. We have got some figures in particular on costs or variations incurred by TII over the period 2013 to 2016 which amounted to €13.3 million. The two main ones are the N11 and the Newlands Cross scheme. There was a €4.2 million in relation to Newlands Cross and a variation of €1.1 million in relation to the...
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Nolan might pass more detail on to the 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) Jonathan O'Brien: The number of legal challenges to PPPs by underbidders is a concern. We are looking at a figure of 10% for legal costs as an overall figure within PPPs. What can be done to reduce the incidence of legal challenges?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Is it fair to say that PPPs are more open to legal challenge than ordinary public-----
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: In fairness, it is not just what I am suggesting. The Comptroller and Auditor General also referenced it in his contribution and the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, publication that we got also referenced the issue of legal costs. It is not just myself.
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: That is the reason I asked what the comparison was between PPPs and non-PPPs. That may be a body of work that could be undertaken.
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: What we are saying is that perception may exist but there is no evidence there to support 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) Jonathan O'Brien: I might 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) Jonathan O'Brien: So he did not get the papers, did he?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: If the Comptroller and Auditor General had got the papers and carried out a report, that report would have been made public.
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: So the European Court of Auditors could have got the report then?
- An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I pay tribute to the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, for ensuring that it was debated at the earliest opportunity. As he said in his own contribution this morning, it is unusual for us to be here on a Friday, but I do not believe that anybody in this House or in the Oireachtas had any complaints about sitting today to begin this debate on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: Yesterday, the Taoiseach said he would appear before the Oireachtas Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach and deal with this matter as part of the Estimates for his Department. That is a red herring. Perhaps the Taoiseach needs to learn exactly what the Committee of Public Accounts does, as opposed to sectoral committees. He will only discuss the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome the officials. This is my first Committee of Public Accounts meeting and I wish it was my last.