Questions

315. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is satisfied that his Department has an effective high level of oversight on the procurement processes and public accountability relative to the local authorities and agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40601/26]

191. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the guidance provided to contracting authorities where the creation or compilation of tender documentation is contracted to an external organisation during the public procurement process. [66307/25]

192. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the guidance provided to contracting authorities on the use of AI in the consideration of tenders during a public procurement process. [66308/25]

581. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60945/25]

633. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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 accessible; and to state the planned publicati…

634. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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 requirement under S.I. No. 376/2021 to provide s…

635. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total annual expenditure on public procurement by his Department (excluding agencies), covering goods, services, and works, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; to clarify if his Department maintains any internal system or process that allows it to accurately report its own procurement spend, independent of the publ…

1420. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to his Department’s published procurement-related payments over €20,000 for 2023 and 2024, the methodology used to calculate and display the total figures now included in these reports, introduced first in the 2023 Q4 report (details supplied); if any exclusions, adjustments, data timing differences or rounding mechanisms …

1421. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide access to his Department’s procurement-related payment reports over €20,000 for years prior to 2020, noting that such records are not currently visible or accessible on the Department’s designated webpage for these reports (details supplied); if he will either provide direct links to these earlier records (if they are h…

1577. Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department or any agency operating under the aegis of his Department, have used reserved contracts or social clauses in their public procurement tenders in the past five years; if so, the nature of the reserved contract or social clause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42756/25]

378. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which confirmed that responsibility for analysing collapsed or re-run procurement competitions rests with individual contracting authorities, if his Department has est…

466. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 515 and 516 of 25 February 2025 and No. 448 of 25 March 2025, all of which sought basic procurement-related data, including the number of public tenders that came in over, on, or under the awarded value, and the total procurement spend by his Department and its agencies in recent years, the r…

487. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has a designated head of procurement; if each agency or public body under his Department’s remit also has a designated head of procurement; and if so, to list those entities, along with the name or grade of the person holding that role. [33644/25]

488. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff within his Department and its agencies who hold a formal procurement qualification or certification (for example, CIPS, NFQ Level 6 or higher in procurement, EU public procurement training), broken down by organisation, in tabular form. [33662/25]

489. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department and each agency or public body under its remit uses a formal contract management system or procurement tracking platform; to list the systems in use; and if they are centrally monitored or independently operated. [33680/25]

371. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if framework-based procurement is included in his Department’s reporting of “tendered” procurement in its annual accounts; if so, to distinguish between contracts awarded via framework mini-competition, contracts awarded via direct drawdown from a framework without competition and frameworks run independently by his Department vers…

372. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all framework agreements used by his Department or its agencies since 2022, by name and description of framework; if it was established by his Department, the OGP, or another central/sectoral body; if it is a single-supplier or multi-supplier framework; if drawdowns required mini-competitions; and the total num…

373. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all drawdowns from frameworks by his Department or its agencies from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024 valued over €25,000 were accompanied by publication of a contract award notice on the eTenders portal as required by Circular 05/2023; and if not, to list any known contracts where such publication did not occur and the reason…

448. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the total expenditure on public procurement by his Department and its agencies, including spending on goods, services and works acquired through public procurement processes, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [13544/25]

515. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide data on the final cost of public procurement tenders where his Department or agencies under the aegis of his Department acted as the contracting authority in each of the past five years, indicating the number of tenders where the final cost was under, on, or over the contract award value at the time of tendering, in tabu…

516. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount spent in excess of the contract award value for all public procurement tenders within his Department and agencies under the aegis his Department of in each of the past five years. [7527/25]