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 2024	ERNST AND YOUNG BUSINESS	CRM Development Census 2027	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€2,200,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€1,300,000
31 Mar 2024	CAPITA CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS	Collection Of Statistics	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€600,000
31 Mar 2024	EIR	Telecoms Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€320,000
31 Mar 2024	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€300,000
31 Mar 2024	GROSVENOR CLEANING	Cleaning Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€300,000
31 Mar 2024	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€273,060
31 Mar 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€250,000
31 Mar 2024	BORD GAIS (GAS)	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€218,000
31 Mar 2024	M.J. FLOOD IRELAND LTD	Managed Print Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€180,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€159,000
31 Mar 2024	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€150,000
31 Mar 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€130,209
31 Mar 2024	ELECTRIC IRELAND	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€130,000
31 Mar 2024	TRIMFOLD ENVELOPES LTD	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€130,000
31 Mar 2024	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€100,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€100,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€100,000
31 Mar 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€88,462
31 Mar 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€88,462
31 Mar 2024	ERGO SERVICES LTD.	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€88,462
31 Mar 2024	BORD GAIS (GAS)	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€82,500
31 Mar 2024	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€80,000
31 Mar 2024	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€80,000
31 Mar 2024	OASIS GROUP	Offsite Storage	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€80,000
31 Mar 2024	EIR	Telecoms Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€70,000
31 Mar 2024	THE GIFT CARD COMPANY LIMITED	Survey Gratuity Vouchers	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€64,018
31 Mar 2024	THE GIFT CARD COMPANY LIMITED	Survey Gratuity Vouchers	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€64,018
31 Mar 2024	VODAFONE ECS	Telecoms Mobile Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€60,000
31 Mar 2024	EIR	Telecoms Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€60,000
31 Mar 2024	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Office Premises Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€50,000
31 Mar 2024	VODAFONE	Telecoms Mobile Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€50,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€45,000
31 Mar 2024	SOFTWORKS LIMITED	ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€44,087
31 Mar 2024	EUROPUS	Language Translation Consultancy	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€42,000
31 Mar 2024	CORE FULL SOLUTIONS LTD	Marketing services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€40,682
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€36,900
31 Mar 2024	VERSION	SOFTWARE 32,509.99 ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€1
31 Mar 2024	TERMINAL FOUR	ICT Software Maintenance Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€31,838
31 Mar 2024	AMADEUS SOFTWARE LTD	ICT Software Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€30,461
31 Mar 2024	IRISH WATER	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€30,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€30,000
31 Mar 2024	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€30,000
31 Mar 2024	EIR	Telecoms Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€30,000
31 Mar 2024	TEST TRIANGLE LIMITED	ICT Services Not Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€25,707
31 Mar 2024	BORD GAIS (GAS)	Utility Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€25,000
31 Mar 2024	ROGERSON REDDAN and ASSOCIATES	Consultancy Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€25,000
31 Mar 2024	KYLEMORE FOODS GROUP	Catering Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€25,000
31 Mar 2024	VERSION	SOFTWARE 24,538.43 ICT Services Paid	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€1
31 Mar 2024	SYNERGY SECURITY SOLUTIONS	Security Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2024	€24,000

^* 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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