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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: 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 Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (22 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation will be passed to facilitate the extension of retirement age by choice for persons working in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8397/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (21 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the income bands applicable to County Westmeath for social housing will be changed from band 3 to band 2 due to the crisis and escalating cost of living in the county; if the fact that counties such as Meath and Kildare are in band 1 due to their proximity to Dublin and in further view of the fact that County Westmeath...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (20 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance when he plans to sign the commencement order relating to consolidation relief for farmers regarding stamp duty; the length of time the exploration of state aid rules will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12514/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Expenditure (20 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a cap on the amount a legal aid solicitor or barrister working in legal aid can make; if there have been cases in which action has been taken against legal professionals that incur additional expense for spurious reasons; if there is a mechanism for an independent third party to review such incidents and the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Mar 2018)
Peter Burke: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed upgrade of the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11978/18]