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 2022	ZENITH OPTIMEDIA	Census Publicity	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€729,000
31 Mar 2022	CORE FULL SOLUTIONS LTD	Advertising	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€415,100
31 Mar 2022	GREENSTAR ENVIRONMENTAL SVS	Waste management services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€20,000
31 Mar 2022	ROGERSON REDDAN & ASSOCIATES	Consultancy services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€20,000
31 Mar 2022	IRISH WATER	Utility services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€25,000
31 Mar 2022	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€47,000
31 Mar 2022	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€75,000
31 Mar 2022	CACI LIMITED	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€3,566,518
31 Mar 2022	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€90,000
31 Mar 2022	GROSVENOR CLEANING	Cleaning services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€310,000
31 Mar 2022	EIR	Telecoms service	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€70,000
31 Mar 2022	AN POST	Postal services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€100,000
31 Mar 2022	VODAFONE ECS	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€60,000
31 Mar 2022	ERGO SERVICES LTD	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€141,450
31 Mar 2022	TEKENABLE LIMITED	ICT Software maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€141,635
31 Mar 2022	DATAPAC LTD	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€65,055
31 Mar 2022	DATAPAC LTD	IT Hardware Part Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€70,577
31 Mar 2022	VERSION	SOFTWARE 45,694.43 ICT Software maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€1
31 Mar 2022	AN POST	Postal services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€700,000
31 Mar 2022	CAPITA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS	Collection of statistics	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€500,000
31 Mar 2022	AN POST	Postal services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€40,000
31 Mar 2022	FARRELL BROS (ARDEE) LTD	Furniture & Fittings	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€29,000
31 Mar 2022	AN POST	Postal services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€30,000
31 Mar 2022	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€50,000
31 Mar 2022	TRIMFOLD ENVELOPES LTD	Stationary	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€30,000
31 Mar 2022	EIR EVO	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€143,110
31 Mar 2022	M.J. FLOOD IRELAND LTD	Managed print services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€190,000
31 Mar 2022	AN POST	Postal services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€20,000
31 Mar 2022	BORD GAIS (GAS)	Utility services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€40,000
31 Mar 2022	EIR EVO	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€58,022
31 Mar 2022	EIR	Telecoms service	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€20,000
31 Mar 2022	TERMINAL FOUR	ICT Software maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€27,354
31 Mar 2022	SOFTWORKS LImITED	ICT Software	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€38,876
31 Mar 2022	DATAPAC LTD	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€176,810
31 Mar 2022	PFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€55,996
31 Mar 2022	STORAGE SYSTEMS	Office premises maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€22,303
31 Mar 2022	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€20,000
31 Mar 2022	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€50,000
31 Mar 2022	DNR TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LTD	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€130,000
31 Mar 2022	AN POST	Postal services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€30,000
31 Mar 2022	KEY ANSWERING SYSTEMS	ICT services	Purchase Order	Q1 2022	€43,714
31 Mar 2023	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€700,000
31 Mar 2023	CAPITA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS	Collection Of Statistics	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€600,000
31 Mar 2023	ENERGIA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS LTD	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€600,000
31 Mar 2023	ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH	ICT Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€575,640
31 Mar 2023	CACI LIMITED	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€551,000
31 Mar 2023	GROSVENOR CLEANING	Cleaning Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€420,000
31 Mar 2023	ENERGIA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS LTD	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€400,000
31 Mar 2023	ENERGIA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS LTD	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€400,000
31 Mar 2023	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€212,544

^* 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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