Public Procurement Contracts

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 a…

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…

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 n…

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 a…

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.…

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]

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.…

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 …

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 …

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 h…

384. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if a company (details supplied) is on the Office of Government Procurement framework to provide security or steward personnel to public bodies; and if so, when the company contract on the framework expires. [48649/25]

403. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment 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 p…

404. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment 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. 376/2…

456. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the web links for her Department’s quarter 1 2025 and quarter 2 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 pl…

457. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her 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…

598. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport 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 pl…

599. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport 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. 376/20…

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 t…

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. 3…

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, ind…

723. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection 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 publicatio…

724. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection 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 su…

813. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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 …

814. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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/…

815. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will confirm whether IPAS functions have returned to his Department, whether future payments will again be reported by his Department in the procurement-related payment reports (details supplied); and if he will outline the arrangements being made to ensure continuity and transparency in reporting across both…