Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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353. To ask the Minister for Finance 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. [55058/25]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Finance publishes details of contracts in line with relevant Irish and EU guidelines and regulations. Circular 05/2023 (Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement) sets out the threshold for publication of contract award notices and these are available to view on the eTenders platform.

The publication of quarterly reports of payments or purchase orders over €20,000 is produced using the information available in the financial management system (FMS). The FMS facilitates the administration of purchase orders and payments of invoices from an accounting rather than procurement perspective. The inclusion of additional detail in relation to underlying procurement processes would be administratively complex requiring substantial time and resources.

My department maintains an internal contracts register which has details of contracts in place within the department.