16/05/06 - Report on Exchequer Funding received by Political Parties for 2005

Table 1. Exchequer funding of qualified political parties under the Electoral Acts in respect of 2005

Qualified Political Parties	Total funding received	Amount of funding brought forward from 2004	Overall total funding available for spending in 2005	Total expenditure of funding received in 2005	Balance of funding carried forward to 2006
	€	€	€	€	€
Fianna Fáil	2,124,237	616,272	2,740,509	2,198,657	541,852
Fine Gael	1,209,218	90,714	1,299,932	1,299,932	Nil
Labour Party	645,799	126,938	772,737	597,069	175,668
Sinn Féin	440,413	Nil	440,413	440,413	Nil
Progressive Democrats	317,782	Nil	317,782	317,782	Nil
Green Party	312,207	Nil	312,207	312,207	Nil
Total	5,049,656	833,924	5,883,580	5,166,060	717,520