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SIPTU lobbies TD on keeping water in public ownership
17.05.2007Briefing note on SIPTU's lobbying of Dáil Deputies - May 2007 - on the issue of public policy reliance on Public/Private Partnerships in Water and Waste Water Facilities.
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SIPTU Researcher, Marie Sherlock takes a look at the international experience of the privatisation of water services
“It cannot be taken for granted that Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s) are more efficient than public investment and government supply of services…… much of the case for PPP’s rests on the relative efficiency of the private sector. While there is extensive literature on this subject, the theory is ambiguous and the empirical evidence mixed.”
(IMF report on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), March, 2004).
SIPTU campaigns to keep water in public ownership
20.03.2007SIPTU is marking World Water Day – March 22 – by highlighting its concerns about the creeping privatization of water services. “World consumption of water is set to double every twenty years – while at the same time, water sources are being polluted, diverted and depleted, said SIPTU’s National Campaigns’ Organiser, Anne Speed.
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Public Private Partnerships in the Water and Wastewater Sector: An Economic Analysis by Dr. Eoin Reeves, Department of Economics, University of Limerick.
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Since 1999 the extent of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) activity in Ireland has expanded considerably. This report focuses on the adoption of PPP in the water and waste water (W&WW) sector. It examines the economic characteristics of the W&WW sector with particular regard to the suitability of the sector for market-based reform such as PPPs. It describes the variants of reform that have been adopted by governments around the world and focuses on the 'design, build and operate' model of PPPs. It examines the case for introducing the PPP model of procurement and provides case-study evidence regarding experience to date in the W&WW sector. It finishes by highlighting the issues that must be addressed for the successful adoption of PPPs in the Irish W&WW sector.
SIPTU has written to TDs and Councillors along the following lines:
20.03.2007Currently there are significant efforts being made to hand over water and waste water systems to the private sector out of the Local Authority system.
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Keeping Water in Public Ownership (pdf, 396 kb)
We need to invest heavily in water infrastructure but it now seems that this task will be given to the private sector, The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has signalled to Local Authorities their desire to see private interests design, build and operate any future water facilities under the guise of 'value for money'.