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01/06/04 - Report on expenditure of the Party Leaders Allowance (2003)

01/06/04 - Report on expenditure of the Party Leaders Allowance (2003)

Table 2: Detailed breakdown of spending of funding received by the parliamentary leaders of qualified political parties under the Party Leaders Allowance.

(The letters in the first column represent the headings below under which expenditure is permitted by section 1.10(14) of the Act.)

(a) the general administration of the parliamentary activities of a qualifying party,

(b) the provision of technical or specialist advice likely to be required in connection with legislative proposals or potential parliamentary initiatives,

(d) policy formulation,

(e) the provision of consultant services, including the engagement of public relations services,

(f) polling or public attitude sampling in connection with parliamentary debates or initiatives,

(g) the purchase of support services for a parliamentary party from the party,

(h) the payment to a parliamentary leader of any salary or honorarium in respect of duties arising from his or her activities as such leader as distinct from those of a member of Dáil Éireann or a holder of a Ministerial office,

(i) the payment to another person of any salary or honorarium in respect of duties arising from the person's activities in a parliamentary party,

(j) the provision for, or recoupment of, transport and personal expenditure incurred by a parliamentary leader, officers or a parliamentary party spokesperson as a result of their parliamentary party function,

(k) entertainment.

	Fianna Fáil €	Fine Gael €	Labour Party €	Progressive Democrats €	Green Party €	Sinn Féin €	Socialist Party €	Total €
a	1,450,507	454,423	687,673	24,290	3,435	111,777	15,051	2,747,156
b	Nil	Nil	161,390	Nil	Nil	57,004	Nil	218,394
c	Nil	69,745	90,606	49,838	28,059	20,951	40,757	299,956
d	188,760	150,017	112,682	Nil	Nil	3,289	1,735	456,483
e	369,387	18,967	127,071	2,581	Nil	10,066	Nil	528,072
f	208,697	74,052	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	282,749
g	Nil	902,067	26,243	190,162	Nil	Nil	Nil	1,118,472
h	Nil	48,344	15,654	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	63,998
i	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	31,964	Nil	31,964
j	103,160	35,135	54,027	Nil	1,236	Nil	Nil	193,558
k	5,422	Nil	13,201	3,883	Nil	Nil	Nil	22,506
Total	2,325,933	1,752,750	1,288,547	270,754	32,730	235,051	57,543	5,963,308

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