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.

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3.2/5

64% transparent

Machine readable 0.0/1

Descriptions 1.0/1

Uniqueness 0.2/1

Supplier number 1.0/1

Supplier name 1.0/1

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Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Publication	Amount
30 Sep 2023	WARD SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€240,090
30 Sep 2023	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€240,000
30 Sep 2023	TEST TRIANGLE LIMITED	IT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€116,850
30 Sep 2023	TEKENABLE LIMITED	ICT Software maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€98,277
30 Sep 2023	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€98,000
30 Sep 2023	MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€96,713
30 Sep 2023	AMADEUS SOFTWARE LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€73,372
30 Sep 2023	AMADEUS SOFTWARE LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€73,372
30 Sep 2023	AMADEUS SOFTWARE LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€70,752
30 Sep 2023	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	IT Hardware Not paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€66,617
30 Sep 2023	ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LTD	Citrix Support Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€63,960
30 Sep 2023	STATIO CONSULTING	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€61,402
30 Sep 2023	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€61,008
30 Sep 2023	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€49,889
30 Sep 2023	GEO DIRECTORY	Data Servives Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€48,831
30 Sep 2023	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€45,264
30 Sep 2023	MEDIAVEST	Public Consultation	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€42,890
30 Sep 2023	WARD SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€41,205
30 Sep 2023	VODAFONE ECS	Telecoms Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€40,000
30 Sep 2023	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€40,000
30 Sep 2023	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€40,000
30 Sep 2023	INVENTIVE MARKETING LTD	Marketing Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€36,839
30 Sep 2023	AN EXCELLENT CHOICE LTD	Conference Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€30,750
30 Sep 2023	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€28,690
30 Sep 2023	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€28,249
30 Sep 2023	CLAYTON HOTEL CORK CITY	Conference Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€27,060
30 Sep 2023	EXORBYTE GmbH	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€26,879
30 Sep 2023	SOFTCAT PLC	ICT Software Maintenance Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€25,923
30 Sep 2023	CONSUMER INTELLIGENCE LTD	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€25,348
30 Sep 2023	AMADEUS SOFTWARE LTD	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€24,931
30 Sep 2023	CORPORATE AUDIO VISUAL SERVICE	Audio Visual Services Conference Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€24,600
30 Sep 2023	INVENTIVE MARKETING LTD	Marketing Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€23,813
30 Sep 2023	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€23,342
30 Sep 2023	EMBROIDERY AND PRINT WORLD LTD	Marketing (CSO Branded Jackets) Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€20,616
30 Sep 2024	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€1,006,192
30 Sep 2024	KYLEMORE FOODS GROUP	Catering Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€500,000
30 Sep 2024	EIR EVO	ICT Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€342,129
30 Sep 2024	MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS	ICT Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€129,317
30 Sep 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€99,876
30 Sep 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€99,876
30 Sep 2024	EIR (LAN COMMUNICATIONS)	Telecoms Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€95,879
30 Sep 2024	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€75,271
30 Sep 2024	ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€63,960
30 Sep 2024	IRISH MAPPING AND GIS SOLUTION	ICT Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€60,101
30 Sep 2024	INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY	Wellbeing	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€59,000
30 Sep 2024	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€58,425
30 Sep 2024	INPUTE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€50,426
30 Sep 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€49,225
30 Sep 2024	AMADEUS SOFTWARE LTD	ICT Software Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€45,741
30 Sep 2024	CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION	Office Premises Maintenance Paid	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€36,900

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

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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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