Payments over €20,000 2014

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2014	Móinéar Teoranta	To conduct research on the impact of changes to the Leaving Certificate Irish Oral Examination	Purchase Order	€75,000.00
31 Dec 2014	Professor Joy Cumming	To conduct research on the development of a Teacher Assessment Identity Instrument	Purchase Order	€48,000.00
31 Dec 2014	Various	A grant of €2,000 euro to be paid to 21 network schools for ongoing work on Junior Cycle developments in 2014/15	Purchase Order	€42,000.00
31 Dec 2014	Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Research (‘data-mining’) on Welbeing and Children's Experiences in Primary School	Purchase Order	€28,605.00

^* 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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