An Garda Síochána — Q1 2014

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2014	COLEMAN ELECTRONICS LTD	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	€34,106.75
31 Mar 2014	EIRCOM LTD	Telecommunications Charges	Purchase Order	€156,619.24
31 Mar 2014	GO SAFE	Outsourced Safety Camera Fees	Purchase Order	€1,429,724.51
31 Mar 2014	JW BALFOUR LTD	Operational Equipment	Purchase Order	€44,802.75
31 Mar 2014	MEHLER VARIO SYSTEM GMBH	Operational Equipment	Purchase Order	€249,500.00
31 Mar 2014	DANIEL TECHNOLOGIES LTD	Operational Equipment	Purchase Order	€40,897.50
31 Mar 2014	AT UNIFORM LTD	Uniform	Purchase Order	€27,093.21
31 Mar 2014	GANNONS CITY RECOVERY	Towing Fees	Purchase Order	€25,107.99
31 Mar 2014	DATA DIRECT 2000 LTD	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	€22,886.00
31 Mar 2014	ACCENTURE	IT Support & Maintenance	Purchase Order	€425,372.13
31 Mar 2014	ORIEL AUTO SPECIALIST LTD	Towing Fees	Purchase Order	€25,717.68
31 Mar 2014	DATA DIRECT 2000 LTD	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	€24,640.00
31 Mar 2014	DELL IRELAND	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	€111,745.50
31 Mar 2014	JBS JAMES BOYLAN SAFETY LTD.	Operational Equipment	Purchase Order	€27,640.56
31 Mar 2014	AN POST	Postal Services	Purchase Order	€25,258.05
31 Mar 2014	CANON (IRL) BUSINESS EQUIP LTD	IT Support & Maintenance	Purchase Order	€28,375.00
31 Mar 2014	TICO	Printing Charges	Purchase Order	€26,990.52
31 Mar 2014	AUTO FLEET SERVICE CENTRE	Towing Fees	Purchase Order	€22,229.79
31 Mar 2014	DELL IRELAND	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	€129,150.00
31 Mar 2014	PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS SERVICE	Recruitment Fees	Purchase Order	€23,639.67
31 Mar 2014	ORIEL AUTO SPECIALIST LTD	Towing Fees	Purchase Order	€25,824.21
31 Mar 2014	VODAFONE IRELAND LTD	Telecommunications Charges	Purchase Order	€226,428.06

^* 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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