Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2017

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2017	201712 200008417 Iarnrod Eireann	Travel Pass Scheme	Purchase Order	€32,650.00
31 Dec 2017	201712 200008424 Eircom	Data Services	Purchase Order	€28,840.00
31 Dec 2017	201711 200008271 Thomson Reuters	Online legal information service 2018	Purchase Order	€30,793.00
31 Dec 2017	201710 200008246 National Shared Services Office	Peoplepoint Service Charge 2017	Purchase Order	€38,147.46

^* 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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