Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing his Department, when publishing quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000, from including additional columns that link each payment to its underlying procurement process specifically tender/contract title; name and address of the awarded contractor/supplier; contract award date; contract duration; expected contract value (excl. VAT); maximum contract value (excl. VAT); the unique identifier from the relevant contract award notice; and where such constraints exist, to provide details explaining his Department’s current process for reconciling each reported payment with the corresponding published contract award notice on eTenders. [55054/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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My Department is fully in line with obligations regarding the publication quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000 arising from the Public Service Reform in 2011, and under Section 8 of the FOI Act, 2014.

The central policy in relation to these matters is set by the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. As such, my Department follows the central guidance on the material which is published.

The Purchase Order report relating to payments for goods, services or works procured to a value greater than €20,000 for my Department are available at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/collections/purchase-orders/#2025

Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all contracting authorities under the aegis of his Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the mandatory requirement to publish contract award notices for all contracts above €25,000; and if he will provide details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place to ensure this requirement is met. [55071/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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The details of the monitoring or enforcement arrangements in place by bodies under the aegis of my Department to ensure full compliance with Circular 05/2023 are an operational matter for those bodies.

However, I can confirm that the governance oversight arrangements operated by my Department, in terms of compliance assurance across state bodies, encompass relevant public procurement obligations.