(1) The following are functions of the Agency -
(a) to provide advice to any State authority of what, in the opinion of the Agency, are the optimal means of financing the cost of public investment projects in order to achieve value for money,
(b) to provide advice to any State authority on all aspects of financing, refinancing and insurance of public investment projects to be duly undertaken by means of public private partnership arrangements or within the public sector,
(c) to enter into a public private partnership arrangement with a view to transferring the rights and obligations under such an arrangement to any State authority,
(d) to act as agent for any State authority in connection with the entry or proposed entry by that State authority into a public private partnership arrangement, or
(e) to enter into any arrangement or contract to procure as agent for the Minister for Education, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science or for a local au
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