Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2012

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2012	Behaviour and Attitudes Ltd	Research – Constitutional	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
30 Sep 2012	Legal Provider	Legal Services for Independent – Jun 12 Review group on Child Deaths	Purchase Order	€20,147.40
30 Sep 2012	National Youth Council of	Children & Young People’s Ireland participation support services Apr	Purchase Order	€21,178.35
30 Sep 2012	Behaviour and Attitudes Ltd	Research – Constitutional Referendum	Purchase Order	€21,402.00
30 Sep 2012	Behaviour and Attitudes Ltd	Research – Constitutional Referendum	Purchase Order	€21,402.00
30 Sep 2012	Barnardos	Garda Vetting Services May & Jun 2012	Purchase Order	€21,954.27
30 Sep 2012	Behaviour and Attitudes Ltd	Research – Constitutional Referendum	Purchase Order	€29,520.00
30 Sep 2012	POBAL	Comhairle na nOg Administration 2012 – 2013	Purchase Order	€34,000.00
30 Sep 2012	Public Appointments Service	Recruitment Costs – Tusla	Purchase Order	€42,299.34
30 Sep 2012	Early Childhood Ireland	Garda Vetting Services Jan – June 2012	Purchase Order	€50,000.00
30 Sep 2012	ESRI	Research (National Longitudinal Study) Aug 12	Purchase Order	€107,793.23
30 Sep 2012	ESRI	Research (National Longitudinal Study) Jun 12	Purchase Order	€133,487.39
30 Sep 2012	ESRI	Research (National Longitudinal 2012 Study) Jul 12	Purchase Order	€133,919.08
30 Sep 2012	POBAL	External Service Delivery re. Childcare Programmes Jul – Sep	Purchase Order	€1,350,000.00

^* 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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