Payments over €20,000 2018

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2018	ERSI (Economic and Social Research Institute)	Research into the effect of the new Leaving Certificate Grading Bands on the School Experience and Environment.	Purchase Order	€78,505.00
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin School of Education	Children’s School Lives Longitudinal Study	Purchase Order	€280,000.00
31 Dec 2018	Micromail	Azure software licensing.	Purchase Order	€33,298.00
31 Dec 2018	i3 Digital	Redevelopment of the Primary Language Curriculum webpages on www.curriculumonline.ie.	Purchase Order	€30,307.00
31 Dec 2018	Schools Forum	Payment of a grant of €500 to 43 schools and preschools who are working with the NCCA on the review and redevelopment of the Primary School Curriculum.	Purchase Order	€21,500.00
31 Dec 2018	The Teaching Council	Research grant to support the development of an online research platform for teachers and researchers.	Purchase Order	€28,000.00
31 Dec 2018	Evros Technology Group	EMS (Enterprise Moblie Security ) upgrade	Purchase Order	€23,616.00

^* 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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