Payments over €20,000 2022

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2022	Marino Institute of Education	Literature review to support the development of the Arts Education specification as part of primary curriculum.	Purchase Order	€34,890.00
31 Dec 2022	Dublin City University	Research on Early Enactment Review of Junior Cycle Irish, L1 and L2 specifications.	Purchase Order	€24,555.00
31 Dec 2022	Context	Translation Services Q4 2022	Purchase Order	€40,000.00
31 Dec 2022	Mary Immaculate College	Carry out a literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Wellbeing as part of the review of the Primary School Curriculum. Payment is due to issue in three stages: 20% in October 2022, 40% in February 2023 and 40% in June 2023.	Purchase Order	€35,877.00
31 Dec 2022	Dublin City University	Carry out a literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education as part of the review of the Primary School Curriculum.	Purchase Order	€42,853.00
31 Dec 2022	Dublin City University	Carry out a literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Social and Environmental Education as part of the review of the Primary School Curriculum.	Purchase Order	€34,872.00
31 Dec 2022	University College Dublin	Second payment for Year 4 of the Children's School Lives Longitudinal Study.	Purchase Order	€241,742.00
31 Dec 2022	Context	Translation costs for Q3 2022	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2022	Dublin City University	Carry out a literature review over two tasks. Task 1 requires a review of literature on integration as a concept, its theoretical base and contested discourses. Task 2 requires a review of literature into the associations among the concepts of Integration, Pedagogy and Assessment in the context of curriculum enactment in primary schools.	Purchase Order	€48,658.00
31 Dec 2022	University of Limerick	Payment to the School of Education at the University of Limerick	Purchase Order	€52,441.00
31 Dec 2022	Mary Immaculate College	Consultation with children on the draft Primary Mathematics Curriculum to be carried out by a team from Mary Immaculate College	Purchase Order	€23,494.00
31 Dec 2022	Context	Translation services	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
31 Dec 2022	Institute of Public Administration (IPA)	External review of Council effectiveness	Purchase Order	€22,140.00
31 Dec 2022	i3 DIgital	COL Design Refresh	Purchase Order	€31,980.00
31 Dec 2022	Maynooth University	Consultation with children for Updating Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework (Phase 1 and Phase 2)	Purchase Order	€85,385.00
31 Dec 2022	Dublin City University (DCU)	Literature review to support Updating Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework	Purchase Order	€30,701.00
31 Dec 2022	Harney Nolan Chartered Accountants	Provision of Accountancy Services 2022	Purchase Order	€34,770.00

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