Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2019

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2019	Dublin 2 D02 Ireland www.finance.gov.ie @IRLDeptFinance	R	Purchase Order	€583.00
31 Mar 2019	Europus Government Buildings Upper Merrion Street	Translation Services	Purchase Order	€334.31
31 Mar 2019	Central Bank of Ireland	management in 2018	Purchase Order	€16,810.00
31 Mar 2019	Ltd The Departments contribution towards the Financial Stability Group’s work on systemic crisis	recommendations for a future model of service delivery and opportunities for improvement.	Purchase Order	€23,985.00
31 Mar 2019	Daniel J.Edelman Ireland Ltd Grant Thornton Consulting A review of the business model of the Department’s in-house Print Room service, with	Finance	Purchase Order	€24,395.00
31 Mar 2019	Arthur Cox Provision of specialist advice on using social media in overseas markets to promote Ireland for	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€38,507.63
31 Mar 2019	Public Appointments Service	Board Recruitment	Purchase Order	€46,022.50
31 Mar 2019	Merc Partners	Recruitment Consultancy	Purchase Order	€69,966.26
31 Mar 2019	Fitzpatrick Associates	SME Credit Demand Survey	Purchase Order	€147,477.00
31 Mar 2019	William Fry	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€389,775.92
31 Mar 2019	Indecon	Economic Consultancy	Purchase Order	€530,205.03
31 Mar 2019	Payments for consultancy services, professional fees, and legal Provider Description (€ or € eq.)	advice 1 Jan 2019 to 31 December	Purchase Order	€2,019.00

^* 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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