183. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/contract title; name and address of the award…
184. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place to ensure this requirement is me…
212. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out for…
229. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/contract title; name and address of the awarded contractor/s…
230. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place to ensure this requirement is met. [55072/25]
233. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out for his Department…
273. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/contract title; name and address of the awarded contractor/supplier; co…
274. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place to ensure this requirement is met. [55085/25]
305. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport if his Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out for his Department and for ea…
353. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Finance if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/contract title; name and address of the awarded contractor/supplier; cont…
354. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Finance if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place to ensure this requirement is met. [55075/25]
367. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Finance if his Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out for his Department and for each…
374. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 353, 354 and 356 of 17 September 2025, the specific statutory or administrative actor who is responsible for monitoring and evidencing compliance with Circular 05/2023 across the public service; and if his Department considers that responsibility rests wit…
375. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to his reply that his Department ‘has no role in monitoring compliance’ to set out whether the eTenders platform currently captures sufficient data to produce central compliance statistics for Circular 05/2023 (e.g. counts of advertisements at/above €50,000 for goods/services, €200,000 …
376. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide copies (or links) of circulars, guidance notes, compliance reminders or buyer alerts issued by his Department/OGP since March 2023 relating to Circular 05/2023 obligations (advertising thresholds, award-notice publication €25,000, completion of award-notice fields); and to provide th…
377. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will commit to publishing a quarterly compliance dashboard for Circular 05/2023 showing the national compliance rates by obligation and sector; a list of contracting authorities with material non-compliance; the remediation actions and timelines agreed with those bodies and, if not, to se…
378. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the escalation and sanction framework available where contracting authorities persistently fail to comply with Circular 05/2023 (e.g. under the public spending code, internal audit, Comptroller and Auditor General observations, or performance agreements with accounting officers); and, if such a…
379. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to his reply of 17 September 2025, the way in which the Oireachtas can be assured that Circular 05/2023 is being implemented if his Department does not centrally monitor compliance, if no central compliance statistics are published, and if no escalation pathway is defined; and if he acc…
380. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide, for each quarter since Quarter 2 2023, the number of contract award notices €25,000 published on eTenders ; the proportion where all mandatory data fields were completed; and the number of awards recorded as off-platform competitions subsequently uploaded. [55049/25]
381. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department will instruct the OGP to introduce an accounting officer compliance certificate (annexed to appropriation accounts) affirming that the Department/Body advertised all contracts at/above Circular 05/2023 thresholds; published all awards €25,000 (including off-platform procuremen…
382. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/cont…
383. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements …
391. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where thes…
396. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/contract title; name and address of the awarde…
397. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place to ensure this requirement is met…