Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 307: To ask the Minister for Finance the aggregate value of PPP projects funded in each of the past five years; the value of projects funded to date in 2006; and the expected outturn by end of 2006. [34062/06]

Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Information is not collated centrally on a routine basis on the aggregate value of investment in PPP projects on account of such factors as the significant number of separate authorities that are responsible for procuring individual PPP projects, differences in the public-private funding mix that arise between the different sectors involved and differences between sectors in the public funding contribution to projects.

The areas in which significant PPP investment occurred in the period in question were roads, education and local government. In the education area, information provided to my Department by the Department of Education and Science for the estimated level of capital construction investment in privately-financed PPP projects for the years in question to be funded by means of ongoing unitary payments from that Department's Vote is set out in the table following:

In the roads area, information furnished by the Department of Transport in respect of the National Roads Authority (NRA) for the value for capital construction investment for 2001-2006 is set out in the table following:

The Deputy may wish to note that the NRA gives a subvention towards construction payments and therefore the construction values reported are partly privately financed and partly publicly financed.

Within the Local Government sector, there are a wide range of PPP projects involving, for example, land swaps, own resources, some Exchequer funding or a mix of these but which have not to date involved ongoing unitary payments. I have therefore asked my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to arrange for his officials to contact the Deputy directly with a view to giving him an appropriate response that reflects the nature of the PPPs which are delivered in the Local Government sector.