Defence Forces

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Ceisteanna (11)

Pauline Tully

Ceist:

11. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for a full list of the value of equipment purchased and procured for the Defence Forces in each of the past two years from companies based in the United States, France and the UK, in tabular form. [38212/24]

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Freagraí scríofa

Tánaiste and Minister for Defence

The detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available from the Department's financial management systems within the time frame sought.

Officials from my Department will arrange to have this information forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.

I advised in response that the detailed information sought by the Deputy was not readily available from the Department's financial management systems within the time frame sought and undertook to have this information forwarded to you as soon as possible. Officials in my Department have carried out a detailed examination of financial records in order to provide the information requested in your PQ. Unfortunately, the required information at the level of detail requested is not available from the Department’s financial systems.

However, the information set out below indicates the amount spent on contracts, including goods and services, from companies registered in France, UK and the USA over the past two years is as set out in the table below. Please note payments are made in the currency specified in the agreed contracts.

Country	2023
EUR	GBP	USD
France	€28,304,169	£ -	$ -
UK	€23,338,893	£ 5,975,441.15	$ 376,280.67
USA	€31,817,173	£ -	$ 3,737,842.92

Country	2024
EUR	GBP	USD
France	€1,010,797	£ -	$ -
UK	€13,061,407	£ 5,675,218.74	$ 144,075.02
USA	€22,514,262	£ -	$ 4,413,275.20

Investment in new equipment for the Defence Forces is provided for under various subheads of the Defence Vote relating to defensive equipment, mechanical transport, aircraft, ships and naval stores, engineering, communications and information technology equipment etc. In this context, I would like to advise the Deputy that the Defence Organisation routinely publishes details of Purchase Orders for goods and services valued at more than €20,000. This information is published on the Department of Defence website – www.gov.ie/en/collection/b61276-purchase-orders-over-20000/ . I am advised that a small number of Purchase Orders are excluded from the published list for security and operational reasons.

If the Deputy would like further information on any of the Purchase Orders published mu Department’s Procurement and Acquisitions Branch will be happy to assist.