Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2016

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2016	Capita Business Services	Internal Audit	Purchase Order	€20,634.00
31 Dec 2016	Croke Park Stadium	Venue for Comhairle na nÓg Showcase	Purchase Order	€21,540.27
31 Dec 2016	Barnardos	Garda Vetting (July - August)	Purchase Order	€22,116.66
31 Dec 2016	Barnardos	Garda Vetting (November - December)	Purchase Order	€22,116.66
31 Dec 2016	Barnardos	Garda Vetting (September - October)	Purchase Order	€22,116.66
31 Dec 2016	Grant Thornton IT	IT Security	Purchase Order	€23,985.00
31 Dec 2016	Mediavest Ltd	Advertising Costs	Purchase Order	€24,043.75
31 Dec 2016	Niamh McCullagh	Test Excavation	Purchase Order	€25,767.02
31 Dec 2016	Publicis Engage Ltd	Radio Advertising Campaign	Purchase Order	€27,515.10
31 Dec 2016	Document File Solutions	Scanning Services y Ltd	Purchase Order	€29,212.18
31 Dec 2016	Pobal	External delivery of Programmes y	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2016	University of Limerick	Research Evidence in to Practice Project October to December.	Purchase Order	€34,500.00
31 Dec 2016	Foróige	Delivery of Participation Service,	Purchase Order	€79,922.73
31 Dec 2016	Informa	Scanning Services November Costs	Purchase Order	€93,897.08
31 Dec 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research – GU12 October Costs Contract (Growing up in Ireland)	Purchase Order	€140,857.88
31 Dec 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research – GU12 September Costs Contract (Growing up in Ireland)	Purchase Order	€157,178.03
31 Dec 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research – GU12 December Costs Contract (Growing up in Ireland)	Purchase Order	€181,223.48
31 Dec 2016	ESRI	Commissioned Research – GU12 Contract (Growing up in Ireland)	Purchase Order	€235,651.67
31 Dec 2016	Chubb Ireland Limited	Fire Alarm Installation	Purchase Order	€268,007.16
31 Dec 2016	Pobal	External delivery of Programmes	Purchase Order	€303,800.00
31 Dec 2016	Pobal	External delivery of Programmes	Purchase Order	€449,907.00
31 Dec 2016	Pobal	External delivery of Programmes	Purchase Order	€1,453,188.00

^* 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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