Written answers
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Department of Education and Skills
Public Procurement Contracts
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [47740/25]
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The Department’s purchase orders over €20,000 report can be found at the following link Payments for goods and services over €20 thousand.
The figures for Quarter 1 2025 are currently available. Quarter 2 is currently being finalised and will be published in the coming weeks. Quarter 3 figures will be published in due course.
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [47759/25]
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The Department’s purchase orders for goods and services exceeding €20,000 reports can be found at this link: Payments for goods and services over €20 thousand.
These reports were originally prepared in Excel and subsequently converted to PDF format to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the information is maintained.
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