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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)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses do not need to go into too much detail now. We will get it in layman's English for the general punters when the time comes. The witnesses have given costs, toll costs, VAT and estimates of all those things, and then the project risk retained. Some €103 million seems like a massive figure to me. I know the witnesses tell me they have a formula. It is a very big...

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)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses have gone to the trouble of getting us ten charts and saying that they are providing great information. I have been told that here all day. The witnesses are providing information but some of it is not easily understandable. They might help us with the understandability of it. I am confident enough to say as an accountant that I understand most things, but if I 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)

Seán Fleming: The Committee of Public Accounts has that document?

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)

Seán Fleming: I do not need to go there today then. The witnesses will send that document to us. I will move on to the schools now. We have had a chat on that. I am teasing out the information that has been given here today. On the schools issue, the witnesses mentioned it early on in this document, No. 1154. There are several pages of different schools and PPP projects. There is a page on each....

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)

Seán Fleming: So it is an average of €20,000 per pupil.

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)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú said that a few minutes ago. Does Mr. Ó Foghlú see what I am talking about on his document, No. 1154? We will not go through the details of that. I see €63 million. That was in 2001 for 3,475 pupils. That was an average of €18,000 per pupil. On the next page and the figures are in the same order, approximately €20,000. The chart...

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)

Seán Fleming: It is the live costs, the maintenance. As Mr. Ó Foghlú can see, I mentioned two big schools in Portlaoise. There are several around. The value from an education perspective is very important. If a door has fallen off a hinge, someone broke into the school at the weekend or the central heating is not working, it is not the principal's problem. He or she gets on with the job of...

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)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú can see that there is a benefit. It is probably a bit intangible but it would be begrudging not to acknowledge that there is a benefit to the running of the school if it does not have to worry about cutting the grass and that sort of thing.

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)

Seán Fleming: I am nearly done. Later, that document has value for money reports, the school bundle 1, which happens to include the Portlaoise schools, school bundle 2 and school bundle 3. The value for money report for the school bundle 2 is about 12 pages and the one for school bundle 3 is about seven pages but the report on school bundle 1 is a 29 page document. Could Mr. Ó Foghlú explain...

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)

Seán Fleming: I have added the two. In one case there was an eight page report and then a four page report and I have added them.

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)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Why was the first report so big? On pages 14 and 23 there were serious redactions on school bundle 1. Is that an example of what we can expect when we get the published reports?

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)

Seán Fleming: There are no redactions in the other bundles.

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)

Seán Fleming: Extras.

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)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Cahillane is saying they were very comprehensive.

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)

Seán Fleming: What is the PSB?

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)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I know Mr. Cahillane will not tell me what was redacted but could he explain to me why we are getting into redactions on page 23 in the report on the first bundle and there are no redactions in the other reports? There are redactions on pages 14 and 23.

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)

Seán Fleming: I see Mr. Cahillane's version is not redacted. Oh my God, I need a bit of backup now on this one but they are all gone.

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)

Seán Fleming: Obviously it is a concern when documents are printed if they are heavily redacted.

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)

Seán Fleming: If my eyesight was good enough I could read that from here. We are nearly there. I wish to raise some issues. During the lunch break Deputy MacSharry raised the issue in previous meetings of the PAC information had been sought in respect of the Cork Institute of Technology. Mr. Ó Foghlú has checked his records in the meantime and has confirmed that he did write back to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 208. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an MRI scan in Tullamore Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13422/18]