Donations Disclosed by Political Parties for 2007

Part 4 - Receipt of Donation Statements and Certificates of Monetary Donations

In accordance with section 24(1)(b) of the Act, the Standards Commission produced a Donation Statement/Statutory Declaration form (07/PP/DS) for use in respect of the 2007 calendar year. This form was sent to the appropriate officer of each of the fourteen registered political parties on 29 February 2008, for return by the statutory deadline of 31 March 2008.

The Standards Commission also produced a Certificate of Monetary Donations/Statutory Declaration form (07/PP/CMD) for use in respect of the 2007 calendar year. This form was also sent to the appropriate officers on 29 February for return by 31 March 2008. In recognition of the fact that the political donations accounts of some of the smaller political parties may not have been active during 2007, a political party whose political donations account was not active during 2007 was required only to state this on the Certificate of Monetary Donations/Statutory Declaration form and was not required to complete the Statutory Declaration or to forward a copy of a bank statement in respect of 2007.

Table 3 below shows the dates on which each political party furnished its statutory documentation to the Standards Commission.

Political Parties	Donation Statement Received	Certificate of Monetary Donations and Bank Statements received
Fianna Fáil	31/03/08	31/03/08
Fine Gael	31/03/08	31/03/08
The Labour Party	17/04/08	17/04/08 & 22/04/08
The Green Party	31/03/08	31/03/08
The Progressive Democrats	23/05/08	23/05/08
Sinn Féin	31/03/08	31/03/08
Socialist Party	31/03/08	31/03/08
Socialist Workers Party	30/05/08	12/05/08
Christian Solidarity Party	18/03/08	18/03/08
Christian Democrats/The National Party	28/03/08	28/03/08
The Workers Party	03/06/08	03/06/08. No bank statement. Confirmed that there was no activity on the bank account during 2007.
The Communist Party	03/06/08	03/06/08. No bank statement. Confirmed that there was no activity on the bank account during 2007.
People Before Profit Alliance	29/05/08	29/05/08
South Kerry Independent Alliance	10/04/08	10/04/08

Appropriate officers of political parties which had not furnished any statutory documentation by 31 March were sent written reminders on 7th and 23rd April and on 6 May 2008. Each reminder referred to the offence under section 25(1)(c) of the Act for failure to furnish a Donation Statement and where required to, a Certificate of Monetary Donations and bank statement by the statutory deadline. The final reminder informed the parties concerned that if the relevant return was not received within 7 days the Standards Commission would consider referring the matter to the Gardaí. Files in relation to the appropriate officers of The Workers' Party, The Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were in the process of being prepared when the Donation Statements and Certificates of Monetary Donations were received.

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