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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: I agree. The Dáil has agreed the motion and the Taoiseach and the Secretary General of his Department should appear before us. We agreed to invite Mr. Watt, Mr. Concannon, head of the strategic communications unit, and Mr. Fraser to appear before us . As Mr. Watt is here today, will he confirm that he will appear before us on that specific issue?
- 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: We were reliably told that the last thing Mr. Watt had was an ego so we did not have to reference him specifically.
- 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: Despite the robustness of some of the exchanges earlier, Mr. Watt stated that he values public scrutiny and public accountability, and I do not doubt that. Obviously, that is why we are here to examine and probe the use of taxpayers' money and whether we get value for money or not. My first question is an obvious one. I was making the point earlier that I have not seen any of these...
- 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 it fair to say as well, and this is not peculiar to Mr. Watt, it was not always the view of the Department that post-project reviews should be 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: Is that because Mr. Watt obviously sees value in 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) David Cullinane: Data evidence, and I would imagine learnings, would flow from it as well. We can learn from it.
- 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: Were there mistakes identified in the existing ten or 11 reviews, which we have not seen them but Mr. Watt has seen?
- 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 coming to 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: Learnings can lead to changes which could then save money.
- 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 is why I was asking Mr. Ó Foghlú earlier would he share my frustration that, despite 16 years of using PPPs, not one single post-project review was carried out by his Department. How can I be satisfied then, despite the other processes that he says are in place, that we have learned from all the PPPs under his Department's watch? After 16 years, I am intrigued that Mr....
- 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: In terms of the benchmark reports, no doubt Mr. Ó Foghlú has learned.
- 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 understand. I appreciate that and I appreciate the fact that the Department of Education and Skills was one of the first Departments to publish them. Mr. Ó Foghlú has given that context. He dealt with that earlier and we can accept that was right for his Department to do.
- 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. Ó Foghlú can and then when he is finished, he might just answer my question-----
- 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: -----about the post-project reviews, as to why his Department has not conducted one and can he share my frustration.
- 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. Ó Foghlú has made the point that there is huge value in the exercise the Department is going to embark on. My point is that if that had been done over the past five years, this meeting may have gone very differently and members would have had the opportunity to ask questions and learn from the data and analysis that would have been done. We will now have to wait until it is...
- 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 the post-project reviews has TII carried out?
- 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 only ones done were by TII.
- 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: Apart from the Courts Service.
- 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: Has the Department of Health undertaken PPPs?
- 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: Has any other Department carried out PPPs but not completed a post-project review?