Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2012

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2012	Youth Work Ireland	Consultancy Mar – Sep 2012	Purchase Order	€35,000.00
31 Mar 2012	ESRI	Research (National Longitudinal Study) Feb 2012 Jan 2012	Purchase Order	€152,997.25
31 Mar 2012	ESRI	Research (National Longitudinal Study) Services Services Committees 2012 Payment 1	Purchase Order	€155,246.50
31 Mar 2012	Centre for Effective	External Service Delivery re. Children’s	Purchase Order	€362,500.00
31 Mar 2012	POBAL	External Service Delivery re. Childcare Programmes Jan – Mar 2012	Purchase Order	€1,385,000.00

^* 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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