Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of island wide public procurement for the most recent consecutive five years for which data is available. [4890/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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At present, there is no central database or standard reporting of procurement spend within the Irish public service. Accordingly, the following table has been compiled based on analysis of estimates published by my Department for the State.

I should point out that the Public Service Reform Plan published by my Department includes a recommendation to improve performance measurement and procurement expenditure analysis. In this regard, a key focus of the Office of Government Procurement will be a move towards centralisation of data collection in the area of procurement activity. The centralisation of data collection will enable the Office to procure in a more cost efficient manner.