Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the web links for her Department’s quarter 1 2025 and quarter 2 2025 published reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; to confirm whether these reports have been published in full and are publicly accessible; and to state the planned publication date for the quarter 3 2025 report. [47736/25]

Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will publish the procurement-related payment reports (details supplied) in machine-readable formats such as CSV or Excel on a quarterly basis, in line with open data standards; if not, the legal, technical or operational constraints that prevent compliance with the requirement under S.I. No. 376/2021 to provide such documents in open, machine-readable formats for re-use; and the steps her Department has or plans to take to align its reporting practices with open data principles to improve accessibility, transparency and re-use of this information by the public. [47755/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 456 and 457 together.

My Department has an obligation to publish a list of any payments over the value of €20,000 each quarter. In line with my Department's Communications Guidelines all such reports are published in PDF format. This is to avoid potential manipulation of the data contained in such reports.

The finalised table of payments is published each quarter and available to the public through the following link:

The report for Q1 2025 has been published. The Q2 2025 report is being finalised and will be published in due course when all relevant data has been collated. Work on the Q3 2025 report will commence once the quarter is completed.