Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2013

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2013	Mazars	HR Consultancy services – Organisational	Purchase Order	€20,602.50
30 Sep 2013	Mazars	Financial Management Consultancy re. Travel expenses 17 June to 30 Sept 2013 Tusla Jun 2013	Purchase Order	€20,919.27
30 Sep 2013	Centre for Effective	Children’s Services Committee Services Coordinator, Part time Administrator and	Purchase Order	€24,000.00
30 Sep 2013	Emerald Sports	Supply and fit of new Tennis Court in Surfaces Ltd Oberstown Boys School	Purchase Order	€24,782.95
30 Sep 2013	Early Childhood	Garda Vetting Service Jun – Aug 2013 Ireland	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
30 Sep 2013	Mazars	Financial Management Consultancy re. Tusla Mar 2013	Purchase Order	€25,830.00
30 Sep 2013	ISPCC	Missing Children Hotline Apr – Jun 2013	Purchase Order	€25,870.75
30 Sep 2013	ESRI	Research – (National Longitudinal Study) Aug 2013	Purchase Order	€30,954.02
30 Sep 2013	Expert Witness 1	Expert Witness in High Court Case	Purchase Order	€33,600.00
30 Sep 2013	POBAL	Comhairle na nOg Administration 2012- 2013	Purchase Order	€34,000.00
30 Sep 2013	POBAL	External Service Delivery re. Area Based Approach to Child Poverty	Purchase Order	€75,000.00
30 Sep 2013	Foroige	Children & Young People’s Participation programme for new Youth Cafes Support Services April – June 2013	Purchase Order	€75,922.50
30 Sep 2013	POBAL	External Service Delivery re – administration of capital services funding	Purchase Order	€110,000.00
30 Sep 2013	ESRI	Research – (National Longitudinal Study) July 2013	Purchase Order	€212,986.26
30 Sep 2013	ESRI	Research – (National Longitudinal Study) June 2013 May 2013	Purchase Order	€217,256.83
30 Sep 2013	ESRI	Research – (National Longitudinal Study) Services Agreement	Purchase Order	€230,322.77
30 Sep 2013	Centre for Effective	Final Payment under 5 year Service Level	Purchase Order	€360,000.00
30 Sep 2013	POBAL	External Service Delivery re. Childcare Programmes Jul – Sept 2013	Purchase Order	€1,400,000.00

^* 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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