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State Laboratory

The State Laboratory is a State body whose head, the State Chemist, and authorised officers certify analyses, examinations, inspections and tests of substances for official purposes. It is listed among official and State bodies in legislation, including in connection with customs and food-safety controls.

The establishing legislation was not confirmed in the sources. Searches of the Irish Statute Book did not identify an Act or order that brought the laboratory into effect, although later Acts treat it as already in existence.

54 spending records on file.

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4.2/5

84% transparent

Machine readable 1.0/1

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
30 Jun 2026	ELECTRIC IRELAN	UTILITIES	Purchase Order	Q2 2026	€49,192
30 Jun 2026	OPW	FACILITIES MANAGEMENT CONTRACT	Purchase Order	Q2 2026	€129,352
30 Jun 2026	THERMOELECTEURO	SERVICE CONTRACT	Purchase Order	Q2 2026	€56,918
30 Jun 2026	TOTALPOWERSOLUT	Galaxy UPS Parts	Purchase Order	Q2 2026	€32,640

^* 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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State Laboratory

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