{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond","title":"Public Purse - Helping citizens learn more about their locality w/William Kennedy - 01/10/26","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1350,"description":"William Kennedy – from Kilkenny has built Public Purse, a website that aims to index all line-item expenses for each government entity, including Carlow and Kilkenny. He is a software development contractor (he owns his own business) who has traditionally worked on large-scale applications, but he recently became interested in how the government spends our money. Public Purse uses a combination of software and new AI innovations that help citizens, and hopefully elected representatives, learn more about the inner workings of their locality. The main aim is to answer the question: why was the money spent?\nHere are some interesting facts that he has learned from the data in Carlow and Kilkenny alone.\n- Your two county councils and the ETB are a €300 million-a-year industry.\n- Kilkenny put €49.9 million of invoices over €20,000 on the record in a single quarter.\n- Carlow has one housing order for €11.15 million.\n- The ETB’s big published cheques are school building: €1.28 million and €761,000 for Scoil Aireagail, and €511,000 for a site.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RXLdz2oIZxyfVUgkIctIxVaVuWkY_zyf4RKmQh0nW8w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YTUz/YjhmNDQ3MjcxYmZi/ZjZiMDk1ZGRhZGFl/ODBiOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}