Barry Ward (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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240. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in the past two years, by description and amount paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49606/25]

Barry Ward (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any product or service that has been acquired by his Department from an Occupied Palestinian Territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49624/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 241 together.

My Department has not acquired any product or service from an Occupied Palestinian Territory or from Israel or the Occupied Territories in the past two years.

My Department operates a devolved procurement function whereby each business unit and Office of the Department is responsible for the procurement of their own goods, services and related contracts, with corporate oversight via a Procurement Co-ordination Unit, headed at Principal Officer level.

The Procurement Co-ordination Unit assists and advises internal business units and our Offices on a range of procurement matters so as to ensure that there is an appropriate focus on procurement best practice. The Department is also guided by various national and international (EU) procurement rules and guidelines.

My Department, for the vast majority of its procurements, will try to avail of various centralised procurement frameworks put in place by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) as well as utilising the e-Tenders website and advertising in the EU Journal, where applicable.