Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2026

Spending records

Payment date^*	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2026	General energy including Network electricity	Purchase Order	€104,500.00
31 Mar 2026	Staff travel and subsistence	Purchase Order	€974,003.38
31 Mar 2026	Sports and other copyrights	Purchase Order	€715,653.81
31 Mar 2026	Outside Broadcast Contracts	Purchase Order	€818,986.00
31 Mar 2026	Other third-party costs	Purchase Order	€18,289,845.83
31 Mar 2026	Other personnel related costs (including contractors)	Purchase Order	€2,758,830.82
31 Mar 2026	Music licences	Purchase Order	€6,730,772.00
31 Mar 2026	Marketing and promotional activities	Purchase Order	€2,100,312.48
31 Mar 2026	Maintenance, rates, rent & other property related	Purchase Order	€2,584,778.76
31 Mar 2026	Insurance policies	Purchase Order	€95,108.63
31 Mar 2026	Direct commissioned programme costs	Purchase Order	€12,818,274.00
31 Mar 2026	Direct acquired programme costs	Purchase Order	€3,255,125.66
31 Mar 2026	Computing	Purchase Order	€4,773,170.39
31 Mar 2026	Communication Circuits	Purchase Order	€1,064,031.97
31 Mar 2026	Capital	Purchase Order	€1,691,637.96

^* 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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