John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Question 639: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the documentation he signed for a public private partnership for an incinerator on the Poolbeg Peninsula in Ringsend will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31874/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The public private partnership, PPP, concerned is for a waste to energy plant which will be procured by Dublin City Council on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities, in accordance with their joint waste management plan. Under guidelines issued by the Department of Finance, my Department is required to monitor compliance by local authorities with public policy in regard to PPP procurement. Following submissions from Dublin City Council, and consultation with the National Development Finance Agency, my Department has now issued the necessary certification of this compliance to Dublin City Council in the present case. It is now a matter for Dublin City Council to enter into resulting contractual arrangements with the preferred private partner. Pending the conclusion of these contractual arrangements, it would not be appropriate for my Department to make available information which is commercially sensitive or which might prejudice the conclusion of the arrangements.