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Public Private Partnerships Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 January 2018

Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Ceisteanna (447)

Pearse Doherty

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447. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; the nature of each project in terms of design, build, maintain and so on, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4437/18]

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In 2012 the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced a Stimulus Package of State Infrastructure projects, including a bundle of Primary Care Centres (PCCs), to be delivered using the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism.

This Primary Care Centre project is being delivered as a design, build, finance, and operate model (DBFOM). The Healthcare PPP Company comprises Prime, Balfour Beatty and InfraRed Capital Partners Limited who are responsible for the design and build of the 14 Primary Care Centres. Thereafter the PPP Company, Healthcare Centres PPP Ltd., will be responsible for providing services, which include facilities management services, for the 25 year contract period during which the HSE will pay the consortium a total annual unitary charge payment of circa €17m, in monthly instalments. At the end of this 25 year period the centres will be handed over to the HSE who will be responsible directly for the facility management services provided previously by PPP company.

The costs for the construction phase of the project are estimated at €140 million. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's strategic infrastructure bank and funds both public and private sector projects that meet the key criteria of delivering a positive social impact. The EIB fund €70m / 50% of the construction costs of the Project. The other two funders are commercial lenders - the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFG (BTMU) and Talanx Asset Management.

In addition to the Primary Care PPP project, the State's capital programme Building on Recovery: Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2016-2021, which was announced in late 2015, also provided for another health PPP project in the amount of €150m. Following analysis, the currently most appropriate project for this PPP project is a bundle of community nursing homes. The HSE is currently undertaking preliminary planning work to identify potential locations which may be suitable for inclusion in this PPP project.

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