Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contractual capital value of PPPs entered into to date; the expenditure pre-2016 on these projects: the unitary payments made in 2016; and the outstanding commitments at end 2016. [15642/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I should first explain that financial responsibility for individual PPP projects rests with the relevant Sponsoring Agency. My Department's role in relation to PPPs is to facilitate the PPP process centrally by developing the general policy framework (including, where necessary, the legal framework) within which PPPs operate and by providing central guidance to Departments and other State Authorities in that context.

My Department publishes a full suite of guidance to facilitate the PPP process, which is available on the Central PPP Unit's website at www.ppp.gov.ie.  The website also contains details collected by my Department from Sponsoring Agencies on the contractual capital value, unitary payments and future commitments for individual PPP and concession projects up to end 2015. These returns show:

Contractual capital value at end 2015: €4.9bn

Unitary Payments made to 2015: €2.3bn

Future commitments at end 2015: €6.7bn

My Department is currently collating the 2016 figures with the assistance of the various Sponsoring Agencies and will publish the updated data on the PPP website as soon as it is finalised. However, provisional figures indicate that unitary payments made in 2016 amount to circa €192m.