Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 March 2026
366. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the web link to his Department’s Q4 2025 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; the date on which this report was published; and if it has not yet been published, the planned publication date. [16574/26]
View answer367. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to confirm, in respect of his Department’s published quarterly reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000 (details supplied), where such reports are published in PDF format but originate from an Excel or similar spreadsheet file, that the underlying data was fully expanded and validated prior to conversion so that all columns including supplier names and descriptions are fully visible and readable in the published document; to clarify whether any quality assurance process is applied to ensure that data is not truncated or partially obscured in the PDF version; and where the source file exists in machine-readable format, whether his Department will make the original Excel or CSV file available alongside the PDF in the interest of transparency, accessibility and data re-use. [16591/26]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 366 and 367 together.
Since Q3 2025, my Department publishes quarterly reports of purchase orders over €20,000 in Excel, in line with the FOI publication scheme and open data standards. The Q4 2025 Purchase Order report for the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer Vote was published on 9 February, 2026 and the reports for the Office of Government Procurement Vote and the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation Vote were published on 26 February, 2026.
All of the reports are publicly available on the Department's website and can be accessed at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-public-expenditure-infrastructure-public-service-reform-and-digitalisation/collections/dpendr-ogcio-and-ogp-purchase-order-payments-2025/.
