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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: From the information I have to hand, it does not appear to me that there has been a drastic use, or increase in the number, of PPPs. In the case of, for example, the social housing PPPs, across two different bundles they relate to 1,000 homes nationwide, which is a relatively small share of the total level of social housing that is being delivered. The majority of it is being delivered...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department's primary role in regard to PPP contracts is to facilitate the PPP process centrally by developing the general policy framework, including where necessary the legal framework and the capital investment policy framework, within which PPPs operate and by providing central guidance to Departments and other State authorities in that context. PPPs are partnerships between the public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The concept of privatisation implies that there is a public service being delivered in the first place that is then discharged out to the private sector. As the Deputy already knows, the reason I separated the different PPPs is that we tend to have the public service being delivered for a project that has been built by the private sector. A wastewater treatment plant is a good example. By...