156. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 23 September 2025, and having regard to the confirmation therein that under Government decisions of 19 May 2009, 2 March 2011, 8 March 2011 and 28 March 2017 all public bodies subject to the 15-day prompt payment requirement must report against a defined set of fields including the number, value and percentage of payments made within 15 days, within 16-30 days, and in excess of 30 days, together with late-payment interest and compensation costs; the reason the format of his Department's consolidated "Government Departments Prompt Payment Returns" was altered from Q2 2025 onwards to exclude the value of payments within 15 days and other mandated data fields that had been reported consistently from at least 2010 to Q1 2025; if he will consider reverting to the previous format in the interest of transparency and alignment with EU open data best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53554/25]

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156. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 23 September 2025, and having regard to the confirmation therein that under Government decisions of 19 May 2009, 2 March 2011, 8 March 2011 and 28 March 2017 all public bodies subject to the 15-day prompt payment requirement must report against a defined set of fields including the number, value and percentage of payments made within 15 days, within 16-30 days, and in excess of 30 days, together with late-payment interest and compensation costs; the reason the format of his Department's consolidated "Government Departments Prompt Payment Returns" was altered from Q2 2025 onwards to exclude the value of payments within 15 days and other mandated data fields that had been reported consistently from at least 2010 to Q1 2025; if he will consider reverting to the previous format in the interest of transparency and alignment with EU open data best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53554/25]

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