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Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Also known as DETE.

751 spending records on file.

Transparency Score

3.6/5

72% transparent

Machine readable 0.1/1

Descriptions 1.0/1

Uniqueness 0.7/1

Supplier number 0.8/1

Supplier name 1.0/1

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Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Publication	Amount	Actions
31 Mar 2016	DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS	Rent Permanent Representative	Purchase Order	Q1 2016	€31,532.31

^* 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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Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

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