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
31 Dec 2017	BT COMMUNICATIONS IRL	ICT Equipment	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€28,017
31 Dec 2017	ALEMBA LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€25,039
31 Dec 2017	SURESKILLS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€41,463
31 Dec 2017	TERMINAL FOUR	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€27,314
31 Dec 2017	SMARTTECH	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€21,525
31 Dec 2017	ORACLE EMEA LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€52,501
31 Dec 2017	PLANNET	COMMUNICATIONS LTD. €21,111.72 ICT Equipment	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€21
31 Dec 2017	EIR (LAN COMMUNICATIONS)	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€21,086
31 Dec 2017	DNM TECHNOLOGY	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€171,873
31 Dec 2017	CDW LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€90,481
31 Dec 2017	EIR (LAN COMMUNICATIONS)	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€171,041
31 Dec 2017	CATALYSTO LTD	Advertising Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€21,894
31 Dec 2017	ALGENTA TECHNOLOGIES	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€40,627
31 Dec 2017	QUADRANT POWER COMM	ICT Equipment	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€64,357
31 Dec 2018	CLUB TRAVEL LTD.	Travel Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€22,979
31 Dec 2018	EIR (LAN COMMUNICATIONS)	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€22,925
31 Dec 2018	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€38,897
31 Dec 2018	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€72,451
31 Dec 2018	SAS INSTITUTE LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€867,546
31 Dec 2018	SPINNAKER SUPPORT LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€23,616
31 Dec 2018	GEO DIRECTORY	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€28,905
31 Dec 2018	DEPT OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND	Shared Service Charges	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€27,128
31 Dec 2018	LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€29,435
31 Dec 2018	ORACLE EMEA LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€54,076
31 Dec 2018	NEOPOST IRELAND LTD	ICT Equipment	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€24,765
31 Dec 2018	SURESKILLS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€43,658
31 Dec 2018	ALEMBA LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€25,039
31 Dec 2018	KEFRON CONSULTING	Outsourcing Data Entry Census Pilot	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€102,336
31 Dec 2018	DOMINO PEOPLE LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€98,359
31 Dec 2018	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Expenses	Purchase Order	Q4 2018	€30,000
31 Dec 2019	CLUB TRAVEL LTD	Travel Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€60,336
31 Dec 2019	SPINNAKER SUPPORT LTD	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€23,616
31 Dec 2019	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€20,366
31 Dec 2019	DELL COMPUTER (IRELAND)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€28,013
31 Dec 2019	INPUTE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€37,558
31 Dec 2019	QUALTRICS LLC	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€20,367
31 Dec 2019	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€24,044
31 Dec 2019	DELL COMPUTER (IRELAND)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€29,599
31 Dec 2019	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€22,633
31 Dec 2019	ORACLE EMEA LTD	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€56,239
31 Dec 2019	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€50,000
31 Dec 2019	DELL COMPUTER (IRELAND)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€22,472
31 Dec 2019	EVROS	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€210,745
31 Dec 2019	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€71,948
31 Dec 2019	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€36,758
31 Dec 2019	DELL COMPUTER (IRELAND)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€42,683
31 Dec 2019	DELL COMPUTER (IRELAND)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€36,565
31 Dec 2019	SURESKILLS	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€44,966
31 Dec 2019	INTEGRITY	€24,993.60 ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€360
31 Dec 2019	SAS INSTITUTE LTD.	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2019	€897,254

^* 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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