622. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide details of the controls and due diligence processes applied by the Office of Government Procurement and individual contracting authorities to identify and manage potential high-risk related party connections in the award of public contracts, particularly in sensitive policy areas such as migration and asylum accommodation; if these processes include systematic cross checking of beneficial ownership registers, special adviser declarations, and lobbying returns; the criteria by which a contract is designated for enhanced scrutiny; the number of cases since 1 January 2023 in which red flag findings were escalated to the Standards in Public Office Commission or the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make publicly available anonymised annual statistics on the incidence and management of such cases. [45141/25]

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622. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide details of the controls and due diligence processes applied by the Office of Government Procurement and individual contracting authorities to identify and manage potential high-risk related party connections in the award of public contracts, particularly in sensitive policy areas such as migration and asylum accommodation; if these processes include systematic cross checking of beneficial ownership registers, special adviser declarations, and lobbying returns; the criteria by which a contract is designated for enhanced scrutiny; the number of cases since 1 January 2023 in which red flag findings were escalated to the Standards in Public Office Commission or the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make publicly available anonymised annual statistics on the incidence and management of such cases. [45141/25]

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