Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public private partnership infrastructural projects due to be commenced between present and 2012; the cost of these projects; the target completion time for each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21315/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The most recently published multi-annual capital investment framework for the period 2008 to 2012 provides targets for Public Private Partnership (PPP) investment of €9.3bn of which €7.7bn is to be met through future unitary payments and €1.6bn is to be financed from tolls. These allocations cover all Departments for the period 2008 to 2012 and are set out on page 91 of the Public Capital Programme 2008.

Under the system of delegated sanction it is a matter for the relevant Department or Agency in the first instance to plan for the delivery of infrastructural projects within these targets. Questions on individual projects and plans should be referred to the relevant Departments.

Full details of National Development Plan (NDP) projected expenditure for 2007 and 2008 (both current and capital, and covering both Exchequer and PPP funded projects) were set out in Appendix 3 of the Revised Estimates Volumes for 2007 and 2008. The first Annual Report on NDP Implementation, covering 2007, will shortly be submitted to the Oireachtas. Information provided by the relevant Departments/Agencies is available on the Public Private Partnership website (www.ppp.gov.ie) in relation to PPP projects projected to cost in excess of €20 million and already in train. For ease of reference, I will send the Deputy a copy of the relevant pages of each of the documents referred to above.