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Centre for Urban and Regional Studies TCD
Public Seminar:
Public Private Partnerships:
Public services or corporate welfare? |
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Tuesday 13th December
5.30pm to 9pm
Museum 4, Geography Building, Trinity College |
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Contact [email protected] or 0861523542 |
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Secondary Schools, Luas, Housing regeneration, waste treatment services amongst other things are public services that are provided through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The government plans more PPPs in education, hospitals, courts and other sectors. It is claimed that PPPs give value for money, increased efficiency and provide much improved public services. However problems such as cost over-runs, lack of consultation and the reduction in employment standards have arisen in some PPPs.
Should PPPs be used to provide public services?
This seminar will provide an analysis of PPPs, the policy and political context and experience from those directly involved in the PPP process |
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5.30pm-7pm:
Chair: Welcome
Rory Hearne, Dept. of Geography, TCD
Introduction: PPPs: Background, origins and neo-liberalism
Dr Andrew Maclaran, Dept. of Geography TCD
Limitations of PPP, 'value for money� and modelling of citizen resistance
Martin Kay, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick
PFI/PPP : Experience in the UK
Dexter Whitfield, Director, Centre for Public Services |
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7.15pm- 9pm:
The regeneration of St Michael�s Estate, Inchicore
John Bissett, Rialto Drugs Task Force
Employment standards and PPPs, Ballymore Eustace and Oxigen.
Paul Smyth, SIPTU organiser Irish Ferries workers campaign
Why PPPs? The Private Partners. PPPs in Education
Rory Hearne, Dept. of Geography, TCD |
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Notes on Speakers: |
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Dexter Whitfield is the Director for the Centre for Public Services.
He has undertaken work for a wide range public sector organisations, trade unions and community organisations in Britain and internationally. He is the author of Public Services or Corporate Welfare: The Future of the Nation State in the Global Economy (2001) and The Welfare State: Privatisation, Deregulation & Commercialisation (1992). |
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Paul Smyth is an organiser in the Local Authorities Branch of SIPTU and is also leading the campaign to defend the rights and conditions of workers at Irish Ferries. He was also involved in the proposed PPP for Ballymore Eustace Water Treatment Plant and the refuse collection and recycling PPP between Oxigen and Dublin City Councils. |
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John Bissett is a community worker in the Rialto Drugs Task Force. He has been involved in campaigning for a social-orientation to the regeneration of St Michael�s Estate. He is also involved in Tenants First, an independent forum of tenants and community-voluntary groups. |
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Martin Kay has thirteen years direct experience of the PPP process in Ireland and in Britain. He is researching a PhD at the University of Limerick, where he is a member of the Privatisation & PPP Group |
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Rory Hearne is researching a PhD on Public Private Partnerships in the Department of Geography TCD. |
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Dr Andrew MacLaran lectures in the Department of Geography in Trinity College. He is Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, TCD and is a joint editor of the Journal of Irish Urban Studies. |
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