Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2016

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2016	Barnados	Garda Vetting	Purchase Order	€22,116.66
30 Sep 2016	Pickersgill Kaye Limited	Specialised Locks	Purchase Order	€23,056.70
30 Sep 2016	Irish Prison Service	Funding for Solas Project	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
30 Sep 2016	PHD Media	Radio advertising campaign (Ireland)Limited	Purchase Order	€26,754.25
30 Sep 2016	FLAC(Free Legal Advice	Support for Contribution Child Care Law Centre) Reporting Project	Purchase Order	€28,000.00
30 Sep 2016	University of Limerick	Research Evidence into Practise Project	Purchase Order	€34,500.00
30 Sep 2016	Mediavest Ltd	Print advert for newspapers (June 2016)	Purchase Order	€37,724.22
30 Sep 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research –GUI2 Contract (Growing up in Ireland) first part of June	Purchase Order	€122,432.27
30 Sep 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research –GUI2 Contract y Costs (Growing up in Ireland) final part of June	Purchase Order	€141,102.63
30 Sep 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research –GUI2 Contract y (Growing up in Ireland) August 2016	Purchase Order	€157,671.45
30 Sep 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research – GUI2 Contract (Growing up in Ireland) July 2016 Costs	Purchase Order	€268,572.11
30 Sep 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research – GUI2 Contract (Growing up in Ireland) May 2016 Costs	Purchase Order	€298,417.11
30 Sep 2016	Pobal	External delivery of Programmes (July- Sept)	Purchase Order	€271,200.00
30 Sep 2016	Pobal	External delivery of Programmes (Oct - Dec)	Purchase Order	€1,100,000.00

^* 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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