Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [47735/25]

Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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171. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [47754/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 171 together.

My Department routinely publishes details of Purchase Orders for goods and services valued at more than €20,000, on foot of a previous Programme for Government commitment and in accordance with the FOI Model Publication Scheme & Guidance published by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. This Scheme requires the Department to publish as much information as possible in an open and accessible manner on a routine basis, and financial information, procurement information and the FOI Disclosure Log is published on the Department's website in this regard.

Purchase Order reports up to and including Quarter 2 2025 are published on the Department of Defence website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/b61276-purchase-orders-over-20000/. The reports are published in machine readable PDF format which is in compliance with S.I. No 376/2021

I am advised that a small number of Purchase Orders are excluded from the published list for security and operational reasons. It is anticipated that the Purchase Order report for Quarter 3 2025 will be published before the end of the year.