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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) David Cullinane: What is the delay? Why not publish them 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) David Cullinane: Mr. Watt is the Accounting Officer.
- 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) David Cullinane: I am trying to demonstrate patience and it is not always easy when we have witnesses before the Committee of Public Accounts. I will move on.
- 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) David Cullinane: I will not apologise to anybody for doing my job and nor will I apologise to anybody if I feel that we are in any way being frustrated and not getting the information and answers that we need. I will stick to the issue of the code. Mr. Watt said in his opening statement that all projects over €20 million are required, under the public spending code, to be subject to a...
- 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) David Cullinane: Is that a legal requirement?
- 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) David Cullinane: Is that legislative-----
- 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) David Cullinane: So it does not have to happen.
- 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) David Cullinane: The code itself has not been put on a legislative basis.
- 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) David Cullinane: That brings me on to the next point. I read the public spending code last night - all 147 pages of it - and it says on page 2 that "Nothing in the Public Spending Code should be taken as precluding Government or Ministers, under the delegated sanction arrangements set down by the Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, from deciding to approve projects independent of the detailed...
- 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) David Cullinane: I have heard the response and I thank Mr. Watt for it. I put it to the Chairman that when we consider this matter as part of a further periodic report, perhaps we should recommend that the code be put on a legislative basis so that it is not perceived as a fig leaf. It should not be the case that the code can be ignored.
- 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) David Cullinane: It is something we could consider. I want to raise two other matters. I appreciate that other members want to contribute. Mr. Cahillane is here on behalf of the NDFA, which engages in what was described earlier as an "in-house lessons learned exercise". What does that involve?
- 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) David Cullinane: Is this done for each project?
- 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) David Cullinane: How many of these look-backs have been done?
- 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) David Cullinane: How many would that be?
- 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) David Cullinane: Have they been published?
- 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) David Cullinane: Public accountability must mean that these reviews can be examined by external bodies. They are carried out internally, but can they be made public? Can they be sent to 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) David Cullinane: Given that we want as much information as possible, I ask Mr. Cahillane to do more than consider it. Could he send 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) David Cullinane: There is no reason it cannot be shared.
- 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) David Cullinane: Okay. Perhaps they could be sent on for the next day. I would like to ask Mr. Watt about risk. When we discuss PPPs, we hear an awful lot about the risk to the private contractor. What risk is there in building a school? Is it that the pupils will not turn up? What would it be? I am struggling to try to understand how there is a risk to a private company in building a school.
- 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) David Cullinane: Would Mr. Watt genuinely consider maintenance of a school to be a risk?