Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q2 2019

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	ACS Operations – Q2 Drawdown for	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
30 Jun 2019	Archways (Fiscal agent	2019 Networking Support Funding for the	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
30 Jun 2019	Mazars	Professional Services y	Purchase Order	€23,493.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	CoLocation of DCYAs ACS team to Pobal (Q2 Drawdown)	Purchase Order	€28,848.63
30 Jun 2019	Catherine Donnelly BL	Junior Counsel Fees – High Court	Purchase Order	€32,062.00
30 Jun 2019	Paul Sreenan SC	Senior Counsel Fees – High Court	Purchase Order	€34,686.00
30 Jun 2019	Informa	01/04/19 – 31/08/19 Hosting - ESEARCH	Purchase Order	€42,073.56
30 Jun 2019	Niamh Hyland SC	Senior Counsel Fees – High Court	Purchase Order	€43,152.50
30 Jun 2019	Shannon Solicitors	Solicitors Fees - High Court	Purchase Order	€70,714.67
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	ACS Operations – NCS Call Centre Specialist Licencing & Equipment Costs	Purchase Order	€75,495.90
30 Jun 2019	Inventive Marketing Ltd.	National Childcare Scheme Creative Campaign	Purchase Order	€90,037.23
30 Jun 2019	University of Limerick	1 st Instalment 50% Wicked Problems	Purchase Order	€156,137.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	NCS Training Programme (NCS Service Delivery Costs)	Purchase Order	€259,086.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	ACS ICT Development Costs Q2 Drawdown	Purchase Order	€373,138.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	ACS Project Management Office (PMO) Q2, Drawdown	Purchase Order	€511,072.00
30 Jun 2019	Higher Education	LINC Drawdown 2 nd Instalment Authority 2018/2019	Purchase Order	€684,461.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	NCS Operations Q2 Drawdown	Purchase Order	€708,575.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	ACS Early Years Platform Q2 2019 Drawdown	Purchase Order	€795,555.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	Better Start Service Delivery Costs Q2	Purchase Order	€3,143,814.00
30 Jun 2019	POBAL	Pobal Service Delivery Costs Q2 2019	Purchase Order	€3,660,137.00

^* 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.

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