Public Procurement Contracts

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…

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…

202. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 456 and 457 of 17 September 2025, in which she stated that her Department publishes procurement-related payment reports in PDF format ‘to avoid potential manipulation of the data contained in such reports’, if she is aware that this practice has led to instances in which supplier names are tr…

362. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 1405 of 17 September 2025, which stated that his Department’s quarterly procurement-related payment reports ‘were originally prepared in Excel and subsequently converted to PDF’, the reason the underlying machine-readable files (CSV/Excel) are not pub…

145. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has assessed whether publishing the estimated contract value for public procurement tenders inflates final bid prices; whether alternative approaches, such as value bands or undisclosed ceilings have been considered; and if he will make a statement on the…

155. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he has updated public procurement guidelines in the context of public bodies purchasing goods and/or services produced and/or developed by Israeli companies. [53533/25]

156. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 23 September 2025, and having regard to the confirmation therein that under Government decisions of 19 May 2009, 2 March 2011, 8 March 2011 and 28 March 2017 all public bodies subject to the 15-day prompt payment requirement must report against a defined set of fields inc…

350. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he has updated public procurement guidelines in the context of public bodies purchasing goods and/or services produced and or developed by Israeli companies. [51425/25]

749. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 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 …

750. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place within his Department, and across contracting authorities under its aegis, to ensure that mini-competitions conducted under public procurement frameworks are run strictly in accordance with the published award criteria and the provisions of S.I. No. 284/2016; if he will report on the oversight me…

751. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if contracting authorities under the aegis operating frameworks are required under Regulation 55 of S.I. No. 284/2016 to provide unsuccessful tenderers with written debriefs, including scoring breakdowns, the name of the winning tenderer, and the relative advantages of the successful tender; and the way in which compl…

114. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the results and reporting from the Green Public Procurement (GPP) Strategy and Action Plan, particularly with regards to the minimum 10% of food purchased by public sector bodies to be certified organic; if this target is on track to be achieved and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50227/25…

68. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach 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 publication date for the Q3 2025…

69. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach 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 such documents in open, …

85. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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 th…

86. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. 37…

116. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment 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 …

117. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment 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/…

170. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence 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 publica…

171. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence 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…

201. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport 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 publication date f…

202. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport 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 such docume…

203. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport further to his Department's publication of procurement-related payment reports for purchase orders greater than €20,000 (details supplied), where the reports or data sets for years prior to 2018 can be accessed. [47771/25]

279. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Finance 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 publication date for…

280. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Finance 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 such documen…