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Departmental Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 March 2026

Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Ceisteanna (449)

Albert Dolan

Ceist:

449. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to confirm, in respect of her 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 her Department will make the original Excel or CSV file available alongside the PDF in the interest of transparency, accessibility and data re-use. [16583/26]

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Freagraí scríofa

When publishing our quarterly reports on purchase orders over €20,000, my department makes every effort to ensure that the data published is fully visible and readable to the user.

My department currently publishes these reports in PDF format but, with effect from the Quarter 4, 2025 report, will also publish these reports in Excel format.

Question No. 450 answered with Question No. 445.
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