Irish Prison Service — Q4 2023

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2023	REDACTED	Vehicle Telematics	Purchase Order	€54,685.80
31 Dec 2023	O'MAHONY MEATS	Food Supplies	Purchase Order	€242,023.43
31 Dec 2023	ELECTRIC IRELAND ENERGY	Utility Charges	Purchase Order	€1,023,417.42
31 Dec 2023	ODYSSEY PROPERTIES LTD	Prisoner Healthcare Costs	Purchase Order	€41,072.90
31 Dec 2023	ODYSSEY PROPERTIES LTD	Prisoner Healthcare Costs	Purchase Order	€48,746.03
31 Dec 2023	ODYSSEY PROPERTIES LTD	Prisoner Healthcare Costs	Purchase Order	€23,249.27
31 Dec 2023	DUPAN BAKERY EQUIPMENT LTD	Work Training Equipment/Supplies	Purchase Order	€22,341.72
31 Dec 2023	HIBERNIA SERVICES LTD	IT/Telecoms	Purchase Order	€94,531.65
31 Dec 2023	LYNAS FOODSERVICE LTD	Food Supplies	Purchase Order	€70,839.21
31 Dec 2023	LYNAS FOODSERVICE LTD	Food Supplies	Purchase Order	€70,269.42
31 Dec 2023	TICHOME LTD	Food Supplies	Purchase Order	€48,667.68
31 Dec 2023	CIRCLE K FUEL CARD SERVICES	Fuel for Official Vehicles	Purchase Order	€44,540.76
31 Dec 2023	CHUBB IRELAND LTD	Security Equipment	Purchase Order	€74,356.98
31 Dec 2023	MUSGRAVE LTD	Food Supplies	Purchase Order	€154,775.30
31 Dec 2023	VANTAGE RESOURCES LTD	IT/Telecoms	Purchase Order	€37,576.50
31 Dec 2023	HARVEY NASH IRELAND LTD	IT/Telecoms	Purchase Order	€194,359.89
31 Dec 2023	BORD GAIS ENERGY LTD	Utility Charges	Purchase Order	€37,068.35
31 Dec 2023	VODAFONE IRELAND LTD	IT/Telecoms	Purchase Order	€35,362.38
31 Dec 2023	CIRCLE K IRELAND ENERGY LTD	Utility Charges	Purchase Order	€25,551.90
31 Dec 2023	FORWARE LIMITED	Maintenance of Official Vehicles	Purchase Order	€55,858.45

^* 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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