03/06/04 - Donation Statements and Statements of Expenditure of Exchequer funding furnished by political parties for 2003

Table 8: Spending by political parties of Exchequer funding under the Electoral Acts in 2003

(The letters in row 1 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	1,432,496	Nil	Nil	34,849	14,577	Nil	1,481,922
Fine Gael	681,976	25,236	Nil	380,136	12,826	58,437	1,158,611
Labour Party	396,692	46,477	56,529	51,231	37,688	28,567	617,184
PDs	161,632	10,000	15,213	116,419	Nil	Nil	303,264
Green Party	332,787	Nil	424	72,398	978	3,532	410,119
Sinn Féin	222,463	30,108	48,437	81,169	27,442	6,947	416,566
Total	3,228,046	111,821	120,603	736,202	93,511	97,483	4,387,666

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