Payments over €20,000 2020

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2020	University of Limerick	Research study on the Framework for Junior Cycle in schools.	Purchase Order	€71,058.00
31 Dec 2020	University College Dublin	Children's School Lives study	Purchase Order	€150,000.00
31 Dec 2020	i3 DIgital	Translation API Services for COL	Purchase Order	€39,718.00
31 Dec 2020	University College Dublin	Children's School Lives study	Purchase Order	€146,433.00
31 Dec 2020	Dr Joan Kiely, Marino Institute Of Education	PCRR Consultation with Children	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2020	Micromail	Azure commitment up to Nov 2020 - spilt over 3 invoices	Purchase Order	€33,298.00
31 Dec 2020	Harney Nolan	Provision of accountancy services.	Purchase Order	€34,870.00

^* 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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