Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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396. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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. [55057/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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My Department is committed to ensuring transparency around expenditure financial reporting with procurement records in a manner that is both practical and legally compliant. My Department complies with the obligation to publish quarterly reports of payments over €20,000 on our website and does so in machine-readable formats such as CSV and Excel. These reports are generated using data available from our Oracle financial system, which is primarily designed to support the administration of payments from an accounting perspective rather than procurement tracking.

Regarding, technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints that would prevent future enhancements, procurement policy is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. Should central requirements evolve to mandate additional procurement data, my Department will endeavour to incorporate them.