Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2021

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2021	ERNST AND YOUNG	Consultancy Services	Purchase Order	€21,924.58
31 Dec 2021	CORE INTERNATIONAL	ICT Services	Purchase Order	€25,775.07
31 Dec 2021	OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS	Building Maintenance Work	Purchase Order	€26,215.46
31 Dec 2021	HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY	Third Level Building and Infrastructure	Purchase Order	€27,990.66
31 Dec 2021	IRISH UNIVERSITIES ASSOCIATION	CECAM Membership	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2021	NATIONAL TREASURY MANAGEMENT AGENCY	Legal costs	Purchase Order	€37,141.50
31 Dec 2021	MEDIAVEST LTD	Media advertising for Adult Literacy information campaign	Purchase Order	€39,976.52
31 Dec 2021	BDO EATON SQUARE LIMITED	Consultancy Services (The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform contributed 50% to this payment)	Purchase Order	€56,703.00
31 Dec 2021	ERNST AND YOUNG	Consultancy Services	Purchase Order	€66,427.28
31 Dec 2021	DELOITTE IRELAND LLP	Internal Audit Service	Purchase Order	€75,499.00
31 Dec 2021	ERNST AND YOUNG	Consultancy Services	Purchase Order	€99,226.85
31 Dec 2021	ENTERPRISE IRELAND	Promotion of Ireland as a destination for International Students	Purchase Order	€650,000.00

^* 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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