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

Supplier number 1.0/1

Supplier name 1.0/1

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Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Publication	Amount
31 Dec 2020	GEO DIRECTORY	Data Services YES	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€24,019
31 Dec 2020	CAPITA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS	Collection of statistics YES	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€32,982
31 Dec 2020	SAS INSTITUTE LTD.	ICT Software NO	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€912,767
31 Dec 2020	ORACLE EMEA LTD	ICT Software YES	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€51,339
31 Dec 2020	BBDO DUBLIN	Advertising YES	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€23,000
31 Dec 2020	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€100,000
31 Dec 2020	CAPITA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS	Collection of statistics	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€90,000
31 Dec 2020	CACI LIMITED	IT Ext Service provision YES	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€743,810
31 Dec 2020	CACI LIMITED	IT Ext Service provision	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€2,298,762
31 Dec 2021	LOGICEARTH LEARNING SERVICES	Training Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€24,362
31 Dec 2021	PLANNET	COMMUNICATIONS LTD. 22,509.00 ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€21
31 Dec 2021	DELL COMPUTER (IRELAND)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€43,911
31 Dec 2021	WORKVIVO LIMITED	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€29,520
31 Dec 2021	WORKVIVO LIMITED	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€30,836
31 Dec 2021	PITNEY BOWES IRELAND LTD.	Mailroom Equipment	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€22,772
31 Dec 2021	MICROMAIL LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€71,727
31 Dec 2021	EIR (LAN COMMUNICATIONS)	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€24,027
31 Dec 2021	DATAPAC LTD	ICT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€39,861
31 Dec 2021	EVROS	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€328,662
31 Dec 2021	ORACLE EMEA LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€54,275
31 Dec 2021	EVROS	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€285,152
31 Dec 2021	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€100,368
31 Dec 2021	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€128,422
31 Dec 2021	SURESKILLS	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€49,152
31 Dec 2021	M.J. FLOOD (TECHNOLOGY) LTD.	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€219,860
31 Dec 2021	GARTNER IRELAND LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€118,203
31 Dec 2021	ALEMBA LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€25,039
31 Dec 2021	CDW LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€93,897
31 Dec 2021	CENTRAAL BUREAU VOOR DE STATISTIEK	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€147,532
31 Dec 2021	DOMINO PEOPLE LTD	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€109,028
31 Dec 2021	SAS INSTITUTE LTD.	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€959,374
31 Dec 2021	BUREAU VAN DIJK ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€176,030
31 Dec 2021	VERSION	ANALYTICS IRELAND 29,487.52 ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€1
31 Dec 2021	DnB BUSINESS INFORMATION	IT External Service Provision	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€81,180
31 Dec 2021	ZENITH OPTIMEDIA	Census Publicity	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€378,235
31 Dec 2021	CORE FULL SOLUTIONS LTD	Census Publicity & Website	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€338,949
31 Dec 2021	FUSIO LTD	Census Publicity & Website	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€35,067
31 Dec 2021	BEVERLY SMYTH and SONS LTD	Census Logistics	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€62,276
31 Dec 2021	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€84,885
31 Dec 2023	ALTAIR ENGINEERIGN LTD	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€583,674
31 Dec 2023	INPUTE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.	Annual Software Support	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€350,822
31 Dec 2023	EIR EVO	ICT Software Paid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€297,062
31 Dec 2023	CENTRAAL BUREAU VOOR DE	IT Software Renewal Unpaid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€167,317
31 Dec 2023	CLIENT SOLUTIONS UNLIMITED CO	IT Software and Maintenance Paid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€162,729
31 Dec 2023	ERNST AND YOUNG BUSINESS	CSO Census 2027- CRM Project Initiation Phase	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€150,000
31 Dec 2023	DOMINO PEOPLE LTD	Domino Licences 2024 Paid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€149,249
31 Dec 2023	eCOM SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT Licences Paid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€144,363
31 Dec 2023	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT Licence Renewal Paid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€142,397
31 Dec 2023	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	Census eq Services Unpaid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€135,000
31 Dec 2023	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	IT Hardware Paid	Purchase Order	Q4 2023	€127,428

^* 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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