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Water Safety Ireland

Water Safety Ireland promotes public awareness of water safety and measures to prevent accidents in water, including education. It provides instruction in water safety, rescue, swimming and resuscitation, promotes lifeguard standards, and conducts examinations and issues certificates and licences related to water-safety training.

It was established on 18 February 2019 by the Water Safety Ireland (Establishment) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 56 of 2019), made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. The order treats Irish Water Safety, dissolved by section 10 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012, as the dissolved predecessor body.

45 spending records on file.

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3.7/5

74% transparent

Machine readable 0.0/1

Descriptions 0.9/1

Uniqueness 0.8/1

Supplier number 1.0/1

Supplier name 1.0/1

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Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Publication	Amount
08 Jan 2018	Zodiac MilPro	Surf Rescue Boats	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€175,445
27 Mar 2023	Media Farm	March and April Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q1 2023	€27,150
28 Mar 2025	Titan Experience	Communications & Marketing Service for NWSAW 2025 Marsh Insurance/IPB Commercial Combined Policy	Purchase Order	Q1 2025	€61,008
10 Feb 2025	Marsh Insurance/IPB Insurance	Commercial Combined Policy insurance	Purchase Order	Q1 2025	€51,767
10 Feb 2025	Marsh Insurance/IPB Insurance	Marine Policy Insurance	Purchase Order	Q1 2025	€29,753
27 Jun 2018	Media Farm	Ads	Purchase Order	Q2 2018	€71,194
27 Jun 2018	Media Farm	Billboards / Adshels	Purchase Order	Q2 2018	€39,793
27 Jun 2018	Irish Times	Ads	Purchase Order	Q2 2018	€30,627
28 May 2018	Communicorp	Radio Adverts - June	Purchase Order	Q2 2018	€24,600
03 May 2019	MyStyle Sports China	Rebranded swim hats	Purchase Order	Q2 2019	€62,000
02 Jun 2020	Media Farm	National Radio Campaign - PAWS	Purchase Order	Q2 2020	€25,174
28 Jun 2021	Media Farm	June Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q2 2021	€49,738
08 Jun 2021	Watson Creative	Hold Hands Programme	Purchase Order	Q2 2021	€45,768
08 Jun 2021	Watson Creative	Hold Hands Programme	Purchase Order	Q2 2021	€20,765
30 Apr 2021	Watson Creative	Preschool packs	Purchase Order	Q2 2021	€40,210
30 Jun 2022	Media Farm	June Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q2 2022	€35,458
30 Jun 2022	Media Farm	June Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q2 2022	€24,969
19 May 2023	Media Farm	May Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q2 2023	€30,000
10 Jun 2025	Media Farm	NWSAW Radio - MAY	Purchase Order	Q2 2025	€38,880
14 Aug 2017	Media Farm	Outdoor: 34 billboards & DART	Purchase Order	Q3 2017	€21,982
29 Aug 2018	Media Farm	—	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€36,899
29 Aug 2018	Media Farm	—	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€25,208
31 Jul 2018	Media Farm	radio nationwide / w/c 23 July and 30 / 7	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€31,185
11 Jul 2018	Media Farm	Ads	Purchase Order	Q3 2018	€36,747
17 Jul 2019	Media Farm	July / Aug swim at lifeguarded waterways	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€24,600
15 Jul 2019	Watson Creative	PAWS	Purchase Order	Q3 2019	€20,172
27 Aug 2020	Media Farm	Summer Campaign	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€53,958
22 Jul 2020	Watson Creative	Summer Campaign	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€20,049
09 Jul 2020	Media Farm	NWSAW - Outdoor Advertising	Purchase Order	Q3 2020	€27,932
09 Sep 2021	Media Farm	September Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q3 2021	€24,844
25 Aug 2021	Media Farm	August Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q3 2021	€34,940
27 Jul 2022	Media Farm	July Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q3 2022	€41,064
18 Aug 2023	Media Farm	July and August Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€40,000
03 Jul 2023	Media Farm	June Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q3 2023	€28,647
01 Aug 2024	Version One	WSI ICT Project	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€49,940
02 Jul 2024	Media Farm	June Ad Spend	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€37,361
02 Jul 2024	Media Farm	May Ad Spend	Purchase Order	Q3 2024	€46,167
04 Dec 2017	Watson Creative	PAWS resources	Purchase Order	Q4 2017	€57,810
17 Dec 2020	Watson Creative	Tots programme	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€20,000
15 Dec 2020	Watson Creative	WISE Programme (JAWS)	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€30,000
02 Dec 2020	Media Farm	Radio Advertising / Liam Neeson cinema / winter + radio	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€34,886
20 Nov 2020	Media Farm	Liam Neeson cinema / winter + radio	Purchase Order	Q4 2020	€30,038
25 Nov 2021	Media Farm	December Campaign	Purchase Order	Q4 2021	€23,871
16 Dec 2022	Media Farm	December campaigns	Purchase Order	Q4 2022	€20,000
08 Dec 2022	Media Farm	November Campaigns	Purchase Order	Q4 2022	€20,781

^* Payment date may be the end of the reporting quarter when the entity does not publish an exact date.

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