Departmental Contracts

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Questions (544)

Albert Dolan

Question:

544. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport 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; contract award date; contract duration; expected contract value (excl. VAT); maximum contract value (excl. VAT); the unique identifier from the relevant contract award notice; and where such constraints exist, to provide details explaining his Department’s current process for reconciling each reported payment with the corresponding published contract award notice on eTenders. [55054/25]

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Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport

My Department is fully in line with obligations regarding the publication quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000 arising from the Public Service Reform in 2011, and under Section 8 of the FOI Act, 2014.

The central policy in relation to these matters is set by the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. As such, my Department follows the central guidance on the material which is published.

The Purchase Order report relating to payments for goods, services or works procured to a value greater than €20,000 for my Department are available at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/collections/purchase-orders/#2025