Payments/POs over €20,000 Q1 2021

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2021	Richard M. Ford Ltd	Collection purchases	Purchase Order	€20,853.24
31 Mar 2021	Glenbeigh Records Management	Storage costs	Purchase Order	€22,080.43
31 Mar 2021	Houses of the Oireachtas	Utilities cost allocation to the National Library	Purchase Order	€22,246.70
31 Mar 2021	South City Window Designs Ltd.T/A Bolger Sash Windows	Window maintenance	Purchase Order	€24,056.29
31 Mar 2021	Des Byrne Painting Contractors Ltd.	Painting service	Purchase Order	€25,179.97
31 Mar 2021	Radio Telefis Eireann	Advertising	Purchase Order	€25,662.00
31 Mar 2021	DHR Communications Ltd	PR, Communications and Marketing services	Purchase Order	€30,416.63
31 Mar 2021	Datapac	IT equipment	Purchase Order	€33,061.22
31 Mar 2021	Top Security	Security services	Purchase Order	€41,128.13

^* 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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