Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 December 2014
439. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the details of new PPPs that he proposes will play a role in the new social housing strategy. [47189/14]
View answerThe Government's Social Housing Strategy 2020 envisages that the standard availability-based design, build, finance and maintain (DBFM) Public Private Partnership model will be used as a basis for the delivery of a large-scale social housing investment, delivering social housing units in multiple locations and procured within the same public contract. The model proposed has been used to build a number of national roads and 23 schools in Ireland and is also being used to deliver primary health care centres and a programme of new and refurbished courthouses. This considerable experience will be used to ensure that the housing PPP can deliver significant scale, value for money for the State and a return for investors.
Under the detailed governance arrangements outlined in the Strategy an Oversight Group, which I will Chair, will oversee delivery of the 37 actions. A project board will ensure that all actions are progressed and 5 work streams will carry out the necessary work on particular actions. One such work stream will deal with finance and it will carry out the detailed work on the PPP proposal, bringing together the relevant expertise required.
