Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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781. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing her 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 her Department’s current process for reconciling each reported payment with the corresponding published contract award notice on eTenders. [55052/25]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Department publishes quarterly reports of purchase orders over €20,000 in line with the Public Service Reform Plan 2011 commitment number 9.4 ("Every Purchase Order by a Government Department or Agency for €20,000 or over should be published online").

These reports are produced based on the information available on the Department’s Financial Management System (FMS). The system only facilitates the retrieval of purchase orders from an accounting rather than procurement perspective.

The Department’s quarterly reports are in line with current obligations and are based on a template commonly used by other civil service bodies.