Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2014

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2014	ESRI	Research – (National Longitudinal Study) Jan	Purchase Order	€24,248.41
31 Mar 2014	POBAL	Comhairle na nOg Administration 2013 - 2014	Purchase Order	€34,000.00
31 Mar 2014	Platinum Sales	Catering Equipment for Oberstown Solicitors	Purchase Order	€40,085.70
31 Mar 2014	MacGeehin Toale	Legal Costs	Purchase Order	€122,523.43
31 Mar 2014	POBAL	External Service Delivery re. Childcare Programmes Jan – Mar 2014	Purchase Order	€1,300,000.00

^* 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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