202. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 456 and 457 of 17 September 2025, in which she stated that her Department publishes procurement-related payment reports in PDF format ‘to avoid potential manipulation of the data contained in such reports’, if she is aware that this practice has led to instances in which supplier names are truncated or not fully visible in the published Quarter 2 2025 report; if she accepts that this outcome undermines rather than enhances transparency; and if she will review her Department’s approach and commit to publishing reports in machine-readable formats (CSV or Excel) as already done by a number of other Departments in line with S.I. No. 376/2021 and open data best practice (details supplied). [54551/25]

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202. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 456 and 457 of 17 September 2025, in which she stated that her Department publishes procurement-related payment reports in PDF format ‘to avoid potential manipulation of the data contained in such reports’, if she is aware that this practice has led to instances in which supplier names are truncated or not fully visible in the published Quarter 2 2025 report; if she accepts that this outcome undermines rather than enhances transparency; and if she will review her Department’s approach and commit to publishing reports in machine-readable formats (CSV or Excel) as already done by a number of other Departments in line with S.I. No. 376/2021 and open data best practice (details supplied). [54551/25]

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