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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: We could make up for it today.

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: Is it agreed that we follow through on the Dáil motion? Agreed. The secretariat will make the necessary arrangements. We will resume our discussion on public private partnerships.

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 wants to contribute.

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: Do the witnesses have a list of the ten post-project reviews?

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: Dublin City Council and the OPW-----

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.

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: Certain works were carried out through the local authorities.

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: Such PPPs were commenced under the then Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government before being handed over to Irish Water. We will check with the Department, in its new guise, as to whether any reviews were done before the handover and we will ask the same question of Irish Water, even though I do not think it does not technically fall under the remit of this 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)

Seán Fleming: It was published two days ago.

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: One of the three Irish projects mentioned-----

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 European Court of Auditors has a different-----

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: PPP arrangements were in place before the legislation came------

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: Is Mr. Cahillane the head of the NDFA?

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: Who is the director?

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: Is there a vacancy?

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: How long has the position been vacant?

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 is a competition ongoing. Who was the previous incumbent?

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 thank Mr. Cahillane for that clarification. I now wish to focus on roads and schools and I will turn first to the issue of transport. My questions are based on the documentation supplied to the committee by Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Reference was made to the list of the ten areas where some work has been done as part of the post-project reviews. The list includes 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)

Seán Fleming: When would the contracts typically have been signed? Was it two or three years out? I am sure that construction was at least two years on all the projects.

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 understand that. There has, however, been a little bit of a myth that has been going around here today that these became popular during the recession when the State encouraged this type of finance. I do not believe this is the case. These projects were in their height in the good times before the recession. When the recession came along many of the projects that had been in the pipeline...