Payments over €20,000 Q4 2017

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
03 Oct 2017	TECHNOLOGY	PLANT EQUIPMENT	Purchase Order	€39,812.00
09 May 2017	GEA PROCESS	PLANT EQUIPMENT	Purchase Order	€25,996.00
25 Apr 2017	BCD ENGINEERING LIMITED PLANT EQUIPMENT		Purchase Order	€20,000.00
21 Mar 2017	TOPAZ	GAS OIL	Purchase Order	€22,628.00
21 Mar 2017	TOPAZ	GAS OIL	Purchase Order	€22,347.00
21 Mar 2017	TOPAZ	GAS OIL	Purchase Order	€21,556.00
21 Mar 2017	TOPAZ	GAS OIL	Purchase Order	€21,549.00
07 Mar 2017	CORK COUNTY COUNCIL	BUILDING RATES	Purchase Order	€31,649.00
14 Feb 2017	TOPAZ	GAS OIL	Purchase Order	€21,866.00

^* 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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