Data Source
Each department publishes quarterly reports on all purchase orders over €20,000. Most departments publish this data on their gov.ie website.
What This Data Shows
The procurement data shows when Government Departments purchase goods or services from external suppliers rather than providing them internally. It includes payments to external vendors only and excludes internal costs such as staff salaries, and pensions.
Data Processing
The supplier names in the original documents are inconsistently capitalised e.g. University College Cork and UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK. I have changed them all to uppercase to group the payments under the same supplier.
In the Department of Defence's data, some of the payment amounts are in other currencies. I used the European Central Bank (ECB) API to obtain the average currency conversion rate for each quarter to approximate the euro value as there is no specific payment date given. If you want to see the original amounts and currencies you can see it on the original documents (Department of Defence Purchase Orders).
Missing or Redacted Fields
Not all fields are completed in the original data. Sometimes data (like supplier name) has been redacted by the department. If you go to the original documents it might have more information.
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