David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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872. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the statement of the Comptroller and Auditor General at a meeting of the Committe of Public Accounts on 21 July 2016 (details supplied), the number of look-back exercises that have been undertaken for public private partnerships since 2003; the number of look-back exercises that have been published for public private partnerships since 2003; the number of look-back exercises that found value was delivered in the way that was expected; the number of look-back exercises that found value was not delivered in the way that was expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24986/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Public Spending Code requires that a post project review be carried out for all major projects, including PPPs, once sufficient time has elapsed to allow the project to be properly evaluated with sufficient evidence of the flow of benefits/cost from it. A post project review aims to draw lessons for the future and, therefore, as required under the Public Spending Code, any significant lessons learned from the review should be translated into changes in the Sponsoring Agency's project practices and communicated for future reference to the Sanctioning Authority so that it can apply any general lessons to its project approval procedures. It is the responsibility of the Sponsoring Agency to carry out post project reviews at the appropriate time.

I am informed that a total of eleven post project reviews of PPPs have been undertaken to date, on behalf of Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and the Courts Service. These reviews have not been published, as they contain information of a commercially sensitive nature, including information relating to tenderer's pricing and the calculation of the Public Sector Benchmarking.

Following the discussion at the Committee of Public Accounts, referred to by the Deputy, a briefing note on PPP post project reviews was requested from my Department for the Committee. This note is currently being finalised and will be sent to the Committee of Public Accounts shortly.