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 Mar 2026	ROGERSON REDDAN and ASSOCIATES	Collection of Statistics	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€25,000
31 Mar 2026	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€100,000
31 Mar 2026	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€30,000
31 Mar 2026	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€1,300,000
31 Mar 2026	VODAFONE ECS	Goverment Cloud Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€60,000
31 Mar 2026	VANTAGE RESOURCES LTD	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€50,184
31 Mar 2026	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€30,000
31 Mar 2026	INETUM DIGITAL SERVICES	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€310,000
31 Mar 2026	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€153,500
31 Mar 2026	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€50,000
31 Mar 2026	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€50,000
31 Mar 2026	EIR	Telecoms Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€40,000
31 Mar 2026	ZENITH	Marketing services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€284,200
31 Mar 2026	MRPA KINMAN COMMUNCATIONS LTD	Marketing services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€45,510
31 Mar 2026	FUSIO LTD	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€44,400
31 Mar 2026	CORE FULL SOLUTIONS LTD	Marketing services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€521,200
31 Mar 2026	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€30,000
31 Mar 2026	ERNST AND YOUNG BUSINESS	CRM Development Census 2027	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€3,835,000
31 Mar 2026	M.J. FLOOD IRELAND LTD	Managed Print Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€320,000
31 Mar 2026	KYLEMORE FOODS GROUP	Catering Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€20,000
31 Mar 2026	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€200,000
31 Mar 2026	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€100,000
31 Mar 2026	IRISH WATER	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2026	€30,000

^* 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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