Central Statistics Office

Also known as CSO.

The Central Statistics Office is the agency that collects official statistics on economic, social and general conditions in the State, including the census, which is taken every five years. It answers to the Taoiseach and has its main offices in Cork.

Section 8 of the Statistics Act 1993 establishes an office of that name to carry out the functions of the Act, which provides for the collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination of official statistics. The Act came into operation on 1 November 1994 under the Statistics Act, 1993 (Commencement) Order, 1994 (S.I. No. 323/1994).

1173 spending records on file.

Transparency Score

3.2/5

64% transparent

Machine readable 0.0/1

Descriptions 1.0/1

Uniqueness 0.2/1

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Supplier name 1.0/1

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Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Publication	Amount
30 Sep 2018	MICROMAIL LTD.	Software Licence	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€38,768
30 Sep 2018	BT COMMUNICATIONS IRL	ICT Equipment	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€24,340
30 Sep 2018	DEPT OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE &	Shared Service Charges	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€90,442
30 Sep 2018	DEPT OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE &	Shared Service Charges	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€20,321
30 Sep 2018	DATAPAC LTD	Computer Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€46,125
30 Sep 2018	SURESKILLS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€87,822
30 Sep 2018	FARRELL BROS (ARDEE) LTD	Furniture and Fittings	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€55,773
30 Sep 2018	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€59,778
30 Sep 2018	TEKENABLE LIMITED	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€187,304
30 Sep 2018	INPUTE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€33,942
30 Sep 2018	EVROS	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€69,955
30 Sep 2018	EVROS	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€215,346
30 Sep 2018	MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€64,226
30 Sep 2018	DATAPAC LTD	Computer Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€23,063
30 Sep 2018	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Expenses	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€35,000
30 Sep 2018	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Expenses	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€190,209
30 Sep 2019	CLUB TRAVEL LTD.	Travel Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€20,599
30 Sep 2019	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€24,216
30 Sep 2019	EXORBYTE GmbH	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€24,444
30 Sep 2019	DEPT.PUBLIC EXPENDITURE & REFORM	Shared Services Charges	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€127,973
30 Sep 2019	DEPT.PUBLIC EXPENDITURE & REFORM	Shared Services Charges	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€20,515
30 Sep 2019	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€24,041
30 Sep 2019	DNM TECHNOLOGY	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€68,880
30 Sep 2019	LOGICEARTH LEARNING SERVICES	Training	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€24,362
30 Sep 2019	FARRELL BROS (ARDEE) LTD	Furniture & Fittings	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€45,397
30 Sep 2019	STORAGE SYSTEMS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€35,708
30 Sep 2019	BT COMMUNICATIONS IRL	IT Data Communications	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€28,103
30 Sep 2019	GEO DIRECTORY	Data Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€28,905
30 Sep 2019	SOFTWORKS LIMITED	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€67,312
30 Sep 2019	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€40,733
30 Sep 2019	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€54,092
30 Sep 2019	TEKENABLE LIMITED	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€77,490
30 Sep 2019	MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€62,031
30 Sep 2019	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€71,826
30 Sep 2019	FARRELL BROS (ARDEE) LTD	Furniture & Fittings	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€61,603
30 Sep 2019	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€20,000
30 Sep 2019	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€38,000
30 Sep 2019	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€70,000
30 Sep 2019	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€35,000
30 Sep 2019	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€30,000
30 Sep 2020	SOFTCAT PLC	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€20,382
30 Sep 2020	EXORBYTE GmbH	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€26,879
30 Sep 2020	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€30,439
30 Sep 2020	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€30,799
30 Sep 2020	MEDIAVEST	Advertising	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€24,564
30 Sep 2020	THE GIFT CARD COMPANY LIMITED	Household Budget Survey Incentives	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€25,079
30 Sep 2020	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€32,987
30 Sep 2020	BT COMMUNICATIONS IRL	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€27,850
30 Sep 2020	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€60,609
30 Sep 2020	SURESKILLS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€20,960

^* Payment date may be the end of the reporting quarter when the entity does not publish an exact date.

How to read these figures

These are reported values from published purchase order and payment records — not verified cash paid, and not total spending by this organisation. A row may be a purchase order, a payment, or another reported transaction; the source files often do not say which.

Coverage and quality vary. Some fields are blank, supplier names are free text (the same firm can appear under many labels), and descriptions are inconsistent rather than a controlled taxonomy. An amount alone says nothing about value for money and it may or may not include VAT.

Records are retrieved from each organisation’s published files such as spreadsheets, PDFs, and other formats of uneven quality. Extraction techniques (including automated parsing) can introduce gaps, misreads, or incomplete rows when source layout or quality is poor. Treat the data as a starting point for investigation, not a definitive ledger.

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