Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2020

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2020	Dublin 2 D02 Ireland www.finance.gov.ie V @IRLDeptFinance	R	Purchase Order	€583.00
31 Mar 2020	Daniel J. Edelman Ireland Ltd Government Buildings Upper Merrion Street	Finance	Purchase Order	€4,878.99
31 Mar 2020	Social Finance Foundation Provision of specialist advice on using social media in overseas markets to promote Ireland for	Research re the borrowers of licensed moneylenders, in particular the home collection sector	Purchase Order	€7,700.00
31 Mar 2020	A & L Goodbody Solicitors	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€15,990.00
31 Mar 2020	Workproducts	eDiscovery software licence	Purchase Order	€17,990.91
31 Mar 2020	KPMG Lilley Ventures T/A	Financial Advice re HBFI	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
31 Mar 2020	Advisory	Review of cost & outcomes of large scale liquidations/bankruptcies	Purchase Order	€30,442.50
31 Mar 2020	McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors RSM Ireland Business	Legal Fees	Purchase Order	€52,034.16
31 Mar 2020	Fitzpatrick Associates	Bi-annual Credit Demand Survey	Purchase Order	€72,539.50
31 Mar 2020	Arthur Cox	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€111,183.27
31 Mar 2020	Indecon	Economic Consultancy	Purchase Order	€133,393.50
31 Mar 2020	William Fry	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€228,459.62
31 Mar 2020	Payments for consultancy services, professional fees, and legal Provider Description (€ or € eq.)	advice 1 Jan 2020 to 31 December	Purchase Order	€2,020.00

^* 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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