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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. That is why I am sort of baffled as to why we would go for the PPP model at all, precisely because there is limited capacity. We need to increase the capacity. We are all relying on the same capacity unless we increase the capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That brings me to my next question. One of the things that brought all of this very much into public view was when Carillion collapsed while it had the PPP deal for building six schools in Wicklow, Wexford, Tipperary and others. What is the evaluation of all that now, because it is obviously a clear risk? We got a contractor which then collapsed because of its connection with a bigger...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Dorgan know who did the maintenance afterwards, because there was a question mark?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I want to ask about the profit margin in all these things. How is that worked out? These private operators come in to make money. They are not doing it out of beneficence, or whatever the expression is. How do we work out the profit margin with them? Is there a standard profit margin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but the actual profit margin they make must be looked at and we cannot find that out until way afterwards. Is that right? It is essentially because of commercial sensitivity. It is a long time afterwards when we figure out how much profit was made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there any safeguards if they decide at a certain point it has not worked out profitably for them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All right. I thank the officials.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well, it is not agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an interesting perspective, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Likewise, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, I am very fond of him but I do not agree with him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an interesting perspective.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask another question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I just ask one more question about the housing PPPs? I did not know we had some of them in our area until someone brought it to my attention lately. What is the deal with them? Do they manage them once they build them? Do the private companies which are involved in the partnership build them and then hand them back after 25 years, or whatever, or do they-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They maintain them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank an Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this motion on the hospitality and tourism sector. We are all aware of the employment contribution this sector generates and its importance to our wider economy and to many local areas. In Dún Laoghaire, we have many small businesses such as coffee shops, restaurants, independent food retail outlets and so on, many of which...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is the case that currently, to receive the full State pension (contributory), a person requires 980 A1 stamps, equivalent to 20 years full-time work, but that as of 2034 (that is, those born after 1 January 1968), the requirement will increase to 2,100 A1 stamps, equivalent to 45 years full-time work; the rationale for...
- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will be opposing the Government motion on the migration and asylum impact and the pact itself, not for the reasons that some in this House may put forward but because we believe the European Union and, sadly, our own Government are beginning to make concessions to anti-immigrant hysteria and to the scapegoating of immigrants by the far right in a dangerous way that is not...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government was written when we were coming out of the Covid pandemic. Much of it dealt with economic recovery and the impact of Covid on particular groups of workers. One group that I campaigned and advocated for very strongly was taxi drivers. They last two years of work at the time. Following pleas from the taxi drivers, the Government conceded that those with cars...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She is blocking sanctions.