Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2017

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2017	Dublin 2 D02 Ireland www.finance.gov.ie @IRLDeptFinance	R	Purchase Order	€583.00
30 Sep 2017	ESRI Government Buildings Upper Merrion Street	Research Gran	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
30 Sep 2017	Arthur Cox	Legal Advic	Purchase Order	€25,413.00
30 Sep 2017	The Central Bank of Ireland	Secondee Cos	Purchase Order	€29,449.00
30 Sep 2017	Department of Public Expenditure and Reform	Shared Costs of Minister of State's office Q1 and Q	Purchase Order	€37,173.00
30 Sep 2017	National Shared Service Office	PeoplePoint Service Charge 201	Purchase Order	€49,444.00
30 Sep 2017	Department of Foreign Affairs	Irish Mission	Purchase Order	€50,922.00
30 Sep 2017	William Fry	Legal Advic	Purchase Order	€25,473.00
30 Sep 2017	William Fry	Legal Advic	Purchase Order	€79,914.00
30 Sep 2017	William Fry	Legal Advic	Purchase Order	€160,153.00
30 Sep 2017	William Fry	Legal Advic	Purchase Order	€224,092.00
30 Sep 2017	Chief State Solicitor’s Office	Legal Advic	Purchase Order	€461,517.00

^* 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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