Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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225. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which confirmed that responsibility for analysing collapsed or re-run procurement competitions rests with individual contracting authorities, if his Department has estimated or recorded the number of procurement competitions since 2019 that did not result in a contract award due to insufficient submissions, legal challenges, disqualification of bidders, or internal cancellation, recorded or estimated the administrative or financial cost associated with collapsed or re-run procurement competitions during the same period and undertaken any analysis on the underlying reasons for failed competitions and the extent to which outcomes might be improved through better planning, clearer specifications, earlier market engagement, or other procurement reforms; and if not, if his Department will now consider putting in place such monitoring systems, in light of the administrative cost and service delays associated with failed procurement procedures. [40391/25]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the deputy that my department has records of four instances in the relevant time period where a procurement process occurred but there was no contract awarded. Given the low number of occurrences, we do not currently track these on a formal basis although in all of the cases the reasons for a contract not being awarded are understood. My department will monitor this going forward to ascertain if such monitoring systems are required.