Payments/POs over €20,000 Q4 2021

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2021	Houses of the Oireachtas	Utilities cost allocation to the National Library	Purchase Order	€21,267.75
31 Dec 2021	ProQuest Information and Learning Ltd	Book purchases	Purchase Order	€22,653.10
31 Dec 2021	Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General	Annual audit	Purchase Order	€23,000.00
31 Dec 2021	Electric Ireland	Electricity charges	Purchase Order	€23,210.38
31 Dec 2021	Glenbeigh Records Management	Storage costs	Purchase Order	€26,027.84
31 Dec 2021	Greavy & Co.	Accountancy Services	Purchase Order	€28,076.85
31 Dec 2021	DHR Communications Ltd	PR, Communications and Marketing services	Purchase Order	€32,410.47
31 Dec 2021	Top Security	Security services	Purchase Order	€40,440.97
31 Dec 2021	Internet Archive	Web archiving services	Purchase Order	€41,340.00
31 Dec 2021	P & B Rowan	Antique book purchases	Purchase Order	€44,913.00
31 Dec 2021	Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers	Various library collection items	Purchase Order	€50,800.30
31 Dec 2021	Eneclann	Archivists	Purchase Order	€75,000.48
31 Dec 2021	bigO Creative Limited	Production and creative services	Purchase Order	€85,635.75
31 Dec 2021	Edna O'Brien	Edna O'Brien Archive (period 2009 - 2021)	Purchase Order	€450,000.00

^* 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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