02/06/05 - Donation Statements and Statements of Expenditure of Exchequer funding furnished by political parties for 2004

Table 7 Spending by political parties of Exchequer funding received under the Electoral Acts in respect of 2004

(The letters in the first row of this Table represent the headings below under which expenditure is permitted by section 18 of the Electoral Acts.)

(a) general administration of the party
(b) research, education and training
(c) policy formulation
(d) co-ordination of the activities of branches and members of the party
(e) promotion of participation of women
(f) promotion of participation of young people

Qualified Political Party	a €	b €	c €	d €	e €	f €	Amount of total funding spent €
Fianna Fáil	1,893,820	Nil	Nil	11,250	18,930	Nil	1,924,000
Fine Gael	586,741	1,069	24,901	583,008	50,961	87,057	1,333,737
Labour Party	415,425	50,575	31,365	51,770	34,235	38,639	622,009
Sinn Féin	184,541	25,340	30,783	143,677	11,189	33,213	428,743
Progressive Democrats	235,040	8,360	43,103	24,175	Nil	Nil	310,678
Green Party	238,923	Nil	484	47,680	3,729	14,495	305,311
Total	3,554,490	85,344	130,636	861,560	119,044	173,404	4,924,478

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