Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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598. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the web links to his Department’s Q1 2025 and Q2 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 Q3 2025 report. [47734/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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The Purchase Order report relating to payments for goods, services or works procured to a value greater than €20,000 for Q1 and Q2 2025 for my Department are available at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/collections/purchase-orders/#2025

In line with obligations arising from the Public Service Reform in 2011, and under Section 8 of the FOI Act, 2014, these report are published quarterly in arrears. Accordingly, the report relating to Q3 2025 will be published before year-end.

Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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599. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his 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 reuse; and the steps his 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. [47753/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the details of procurement related purchase orders for goods and services exceeding €20,000 are published in PDF format on my Department’s website.

www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/collections/purchase-orders/#2025

These reports are published on a quarterly basis, in arrears, in line with standard practice, and in compliance with both the Freedom of Information Act, 2014, and the Open Data Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1024).

I also wish to advise the Deputy that the Data Officer in my Department has engaged with the Open Data Unit of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, with a view to creating a roadmap for publication of all suitable datasets in machine-readable formats, and in line with open data standards.