Q2 2020 — Public Purse

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Jun 2020	WILLIS TOWERS WATSON INSURANCES IRELAND LTD	insurance renewal 2020	Purchase Order	€36,103.93
30 Jun 2020	FRS NETWORK	FRS Helpdesk	Purchase Order	€20,681.85
30 Jun 2020	FLOW WINE	in store tastings	Purchase Order	€25,191.00
30 Jun 2020	LINKEDEN IRELAND	recruiter contract	Purchase Order	€25,810.00
30 Jun 2020	AGRI-DATA LTD	Agridata SBLAS Admin	Purchase Order	€26,124.30
30 Jun 2020	DARWIN BBDO NV	European promotion campaign of potatoes	Purchase Order	€32,993.45
30 Jun 2020	MACE PROMOTIONS-MACE IRELAND LTD	2020/2021 REWARDS – Seed Cards and Colouring Pencils 7s	Purchase Order	€115,500.00
30 Jun 2020	PLMA	PLMA Annual Membership	Purchase Order	€39,000.00
30 Jun 2020	MINDSHARE MEDIA IRELAND LTD	radio campaign for Irish Hake and Haddock	Purchase Order	€54,546.34
30 Jun 2020	PLMA	Stand space at PLMA 2020	Purchase Order	€75,400.00
30 Jun 2020	NOMOS PRODUCTIONS LTD	TV adverts - Lamb Contribution	Purchase Order	€23,577.24
30 Jun 2020	DARWIN BBDO NV	European promotion campaign of potatoes	Purchase Order	€29,674.59
30 Jun 2020	DARWIN BBDO NV	European promotion campaign of potatoes	Purchase Order	€27,790.51

^* 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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