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18/05/10 - Report on Expenditure of the Party Leaders Allowance (2009)

Table 2

Breakdown given by each political party of expenditure of the allowance during 2009

Category


 

Fianna
Fáil

Fine
Gael 

Labour
Party

€ 

Progressive
Democrats 

Green
Party

€ 

Sinn
Féin 

Total


€ 

a 2,336,006 639,437  1,038,696  17,139  Nil  90,174  4,121,452 
b Nil Nil   22,174  Nil  Nil  25,531  47,705 
c 110,630  90,000  18,311  Nil  Nil  65,210  284,151 
 d Nil  145,787  104,813  Nil  16,500  72,351  339,451 
 e 288,690  337,129  2,892  3,348  Nil  5,433  637,492 
Nil 215,090  Nil  Nil  Nil  Nil  215,090 
Nil 1,581,172  Nil  49,250  333,137  Nil  1,963,559 
Nil  48,344  23,281  Nil  Nil  Nil  71,625 
Nil  Nil Nil  Nil  Nil  Nil  Nil 
114,088 54,343 69,250  5,835  1,931  Nil  245,447 
146  Nil Nil  Nil  Nil  Nil  146 
Total  2,849,560  3,111,302  1,279,417  75,572  351,568  258,699  7,926,118 

Categories of expenditure

(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,
(c) research and training,
(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.

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