Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 408: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the consideration given to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report of June 2004, which found that the pilot school building PPP projects were far more costly than the construction of schools by conventional means, before her recent announcement of the construction of more new schools under public private partnership. [40589/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department fully considered all aspects of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and has taken on board the key lessons learned from the pilot PPP Programme. In this regard, a full life-cycle analysis of the costs of providing the project outputs through conventional means was conducted. The result of this analysis was a Public Sector Benchmark for the project. The Public Sector Benchmark will be used to set an affordability cap for the project before formal procurement commences. The benchmark is set in terms of capital cost, unitary cost and the associated net present value (NPV). My Department considers that this addresses the issues raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General.