Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 211: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, following the request of the Secretary General of his Department asking him to publish online quarterly purchase orders for goods and services of more than €20,000 procured by his Department, it is his intention to do so and if he will confirm the date on which this information will be published on his Department's website. [15248/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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In the Public Service Reform Plan, published in November 2011, there was a commitment that all public bodies would publish purchase orders online by the end of 2012. As a first step, my Department began publishing its purchase orders online in March 2012, and these are available on the Department's website at www.per.gov.ie.

The Secretary General of my Department will in the near future be writing to all other Secretaries General to ask them to adopt a similar approach in their own Departments and in bodies under their aegis.