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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Did the IMF identify what it saw as the least successful PPP project or those projects that were not as successful as they should have been?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Did the IMF make any suggestions for the operation of future projects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: What was it 10% of?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Does the Department have a rule of thumb for judging the success or otherwise of a particular project by reference to the condition - or potential condition - of the infrastructure when it is handed back, or due to be handed back, to the Exchequer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Has the Department made comparisons with other jurisdictions as to how they deal with them and whether we are as successful or as unsuccessful as the case may be, in comparison with those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Has there been a better or worse uptake of these projects in this country compared to other European countries where they might operate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The types of projects undertaken include roads, bridges and motorways. Two or three motorways were undertaken and perhaps more. Can the witnesses indicate the benefit derived in measured terms as a result of adopting this approach? I refer to value for money and achieving a satisfactory result much earlier or much later than would ordinarily be the case. For instance, I can think of some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Does it always come down to the sponsoring Department to make that decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Given the amount of angst we went through during the period after the economic crash when there was a scarcity of resources - to some extent, there still is - in relation to the building of houses, why were the various authorities reluctant to get involved in the delivery of bigger housing projects right across the country? This approach would have alleviated much of the hardship experienced...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Public or private.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Surely there is an obligation on the part of any Government at any time to make the best use of the available resources in the best fashion in response to particularly important issues. In those circumstances, it was known that Europe did not want this country to go off-balance sheet with spending. I can understand why this might have been the case, but it does not take away from the fact...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: What is the total number of housing units?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Was it 8,000 units through the PPP?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We have that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Yes, in local authorities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: All through the sixties and seventies. It was at that stage it changed over. I remember blocks of houses being built by local authorities. The problem or downside was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The downside of it was that the State had liability 24-7. It did not go away when the block of houses was built. We could not wait for one county either. Every county had to have the same capabilities. It worked well on a small scale, but when demand grew, it did not work. If you want to build a house, you get a building contractor to do it for a price. That does not necessarily...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The State could contract out the development outfit to persons or companies who specialised in that particular area. The problem with what Deputy Boyd Barrett is talking about is the overheads. It is just the same as if you want to build a house. Do you employ the bricklayers on PAYE, for example, and have all the pension contributions and all that goes with it? The overheads multiply...