Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 31 March 2021
428. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the spending for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spending on goods, services and capital works in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [17539/21]
View answerI wish to advise the Deputy that under the EU Procurement Directives, different procurement thresholds apply in respect of the acquisition of works, services and supplies / goods. To facilitate monitoring and reporting in that regard, the Department records on an ongoing basis the value over their lifetime of all formal contracts, and informal contracts valued over €5,000, entered into on foot of its procurement processes, as well as whether such contracts were in respect of works, services or supplies / goods.
The Department had no such contracts in respect of works for the years in question.
The number and value over their lifetime of such contracts in place at the end of 2018, 2019 and 2020 are set out in the table below
|
Position at year ending |
Number of Services Contracts in place |
Value over their lifetime of Services Contracts€ |
Number of Goods Contracts in place |
Value over their lifetime of Goods Contracts€ |
|
2018 |
105 |
€21,443,226 |
40 |
€50,927,419 |
|
2019 |
145 |
€27,849,110 |
53 |
€67,090,481 |
|
2020 |
123 |
€25,495,554 |
59 |
€68,053,094 |
The classification of individual payments made on the basis of whether they were in respect of works, services or supplies / goods is not supported within the Department's existing financial management system.
