350. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the web links to his Department’s Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 published reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000 (in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements); to confirm whether these reports have been published in full and are publicly accessib…
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351. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the rules and legal framework governing contract variations or modifications to public contracts after award, including the circumstances under which such variations are permitted; and whether contracting authorities are required to publish details of such post-award changes. [47749/25]
352. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department will publish the procurement related payment reports (details supplied) in machine-readable formats such as CSV or excel on a quarterly basis, in line with open data standards; if not, the legal, technical, or operational constraints that prevent compliance with the requiremen…
353. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the governance arrangements in place to monitor compliance with Circular 05/2023; the Department or OGP units responsible; the tools and data sources used to check compliance; the frequency of review; and the escalation process where contracting authorities are found to be non-compliant. [47772…
354. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide, by quarter since Q2 2023, the compliance rate of contracting authorities with Circular 05/2023 in respect of advertising of contracts at or above the thresholds (€50,000 for goods/services, €200,000 for works, €50,000 for works-related services), publication of all contract awards €…
355. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to section 1.4 of Circular 05/2023, to confirm whether a formal review has been initiated, the methodology and data sources being used, preliminary or final findings regarding SME participation and operational efficiency; and when the review report will be published. [47774/25]
356. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether his Department has engaged directly with contracting authorities identified as failing to meet Circular 05/2023 obligations; and to provide details of those engagements and agreed remediation steps. [47775/25]
357. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to support a pre-Budget 2026 submission in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47939/25]
358. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the case for increased grant funding in Budget 2026 raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48020/25]
359. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding for coastal protection works at Rossbeigh Beach, Glenbeigh, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48100/25]
360. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding to strengthen the embankment and protect homes and properties from tidal flooding at Cromane Lower, Killorglin, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48101/25]
361. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding for coastal protection works at Waterville, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48102/25]
362. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding to strengthen the embankment and protect properties from tidal flooding at Glosha, Cromane, Killorglin, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48103/25]
363. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the Office of Government Procurement will mandate enhanced pre-award checks for high-risk social care contracts (details supplied); if a clawback protocol for safeguarding breaches will be standardised across contracting authorities; and the timeframes for policy issuance. [48152/25]
364. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide a schedule of OPW owned and leased sites and buildings in County Kildare, in tabular form. [48198/25]
365. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has signed off on the business case for the National Transport Authority’s next generation ticketing project; if not, when a decision is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48243/25]
366. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the assessment his Department has made of the value for money of the next generation ticketing project; if an external assurance process was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48245/25]
367. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to the statement by the accounting officer of his Department before the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts on 10 July 2025 (details supplied), the precise methodology used by his Department or the Office of Government Procurement to calculate this €18.5 billion figure; whether the …
368. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to the accounting officer's statement before the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts on 10 July 2025, that public procurement now accounts for an estimated €18.5 billion annually (details supplied), if he will provide the equivalent annual estimate for the total value of public proc…
369. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department or the Office of Government Procurement maintain estimates of public procurement expenditure by major category, such as works, goods and services; if so, to provide figures showing the relative breakdown by category, for each of the past ten years; and if he will identify the …
370. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total in budget overruns, if they occurred, by each Government Department, by year, from 2015 to 2024. [48367/25]
371. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the measures in place to ensure that Government Departments stay within their allocated budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48368/25]
372. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the new infrastructure delivery unit will publish regional breakdowns of NDP expenditure and project delivery status, specifically in respect of Cork; and if he will make such reporting publicly available on a quarterly basis. [48389/25]
373. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has assessed the risk of over-centralisation of NDP investment in Dublin; and whether safeguards have been introduced to ensure balanced development across all three regions of Ireland. [48390/25]
374. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he accepts the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s assessment that the credibility of the Budget process is being undermined by the concealment of spending overruns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48393/25]