Payments over €20,000 Q1 2016

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Mar 2016	Kilkenny & Carlow ETB	ETB Annual contribution to Music Generation Programme	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
08 Mar 2016	The Book Centre - Scholars	Abbey School Books	Purchase Order	€23,243.50
04 Mar 2016	KJ Townmore Construction Ltd	Abbey School Extension	Purchase Order	€259,094.40
26 Feb 2016	Francis Grincell	Rental FE	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
05 Feb 2016	KJ Townmore Construction Ltd	Abbey School Extension	Purchase Order	€166,377.60
01 Feb 2016	Carlow Regional Youth Services	Adminstration Costs for Sports Development project	Purchase Order	€50,845.00
29 Jan 2016	Irish Public Bodies	Combined Insurance Policy 2016	Purchase Order	€184,850.39
19 Jan 2016	Education & Training Board Ireland (ETBI)	Annual Subscription 2016	Purchase Order	€30,731.25
11 Jan 2016	Kilkenny Social Services	Rental FE	Purchase Order	€21,066.00
05 Jan 2016	Carlow Tourism	International Students Host Families Fee Payment	Purchase Order	€45,000.00

^* 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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