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Arts Council

10962 spending records on file.

Transparency Score

2.7/5

54% transparent

Machine readable 0.4/1

Descriptions 1.0/1

Uniqueness 0.2/1

Supplier number 0.1/1

Supplier name 1.0/1

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Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Publication	Amount
24 Jan 2018	Deloitte	Professional Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€165,954.98
22 Jan 2018	Brightwater Recruitment	Recruitment Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€39,360.00
19 Jan 2018	Gorey, Helena	Arts Programmes and Projects	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€36,000.00
18 Jan 2018	Firstaff Personnel Consultants	Recruitment Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€24,000.00
15 Jan 2018	Conlon, Edmond	Buildings and Maintenance	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€22,100.00
12 Jan 2018	Pascal Consulting	Professional Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€90,000.00
12 Jan 2018	Ariadne Consulting	Arts Advisory	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€21,999.96
09 Jan 2018	Brightwater Recruitment	Recruitment Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€105,600.00
09 Jan 2018	Webwrite	Marketing and Communications	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€99,015.00
09 Jan 2018	Brightwater Recruitment	Recruitment Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€70,400.00
09 Jan 2018	Storm Technology	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€36,592.56
08 Jan 2018	Dediserve	ICT Services	Purchase Order	Q1 2018	€24,578.20

^* 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.

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