Tom Sheahan (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the projects approved in his Department in 2007 which exceed the threshold for a cost benefit analysis; and the person who conducted the analysis in each case. [17342/07]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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In relation to the totality of public capital programmes and projects, as the Deputy will appreciate, primary responsibility for managing capital projects and the evaluation, planning and execution of such projects rests with line Departments and the relevant implementing agencies. There were no projects proposed, or approved, by my Department in 2007, the value of which exceeded the €30 million threshold for cost benefit analysis set out in the Guidelines for the Appraisal and Management of Capital Expenditure Proposals in the Public Sector. I am also informed that neither the Office of Public Works nor the Office of the Revenue Commissioners have had proposals for, or approved, projects in the course of the year to date which exceed the threshold for a cost benefit analysis.