Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection 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. [47746/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The web link to the Department's published reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000 is: www.gov.ie/en/collection/2e5b95-purchase-orders-for-20000-or-above/.

Q1 2025 was published on 02 May 2025 and Q2 2025 was published on 16 July 2025. These reports have been published in full and are publicly accessible.

The Q3 2025 report will be published in October 2025.

Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection 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. [47765/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Reports on purchase orders for goods and services exceeding €20,000 are published in machine-readable format on a quarterly basis. My Department publishes using PDF and the document is searchable (text-based, not image-based).