Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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491. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the way in which EUROSTAT is classifying public private partnerships; and if this definition will impede on any of the Government projects already announced or in the pipeline. [27016/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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In response to PPP stakeholders' calls for greater clarity on the way in which Eurostat is classifying public private partnerships, the European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC) and Eurostat have worked together over recent months to produce a practitioners' guide on this topic. The Guide has been developed with a desire to bring greater clarity and improve the understanding of how the rules used by Eurostat on PPPs are applied in practice, and is due to be published on 29 September.   A meeting of the EPEC working group on the statistical treatment of PPPs has also been arranged for 11 October, to consider and discuss the EPEC/Eurostat Guide in detail.  It will not be possible to establish whether this latest guidance will impact on the classification of any of the Government's PPP projects already announced or in the pipeline until there has been sufficient time to consider and assess the new guidance and fully consider its implications for our PPP projects.