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18/06/03 - Report on expenditure of the Party Leaders Allowance (2002)

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,

(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.

Fianna Fáil
Fine
Gael
Labour Party
Progressive
Democrats
Green Party
Sinn
Féin
Socialist Party
Total
a 833,915 291,867 530,080 19,002 Nil 25,480 15,678 1,716,022
b Nil Nil 141,578 Nil Nil 16,817 Nil 158,395
c 132,531 Nil 42,380 18,549 20,937 Nil 31,057 245,454
d 43,371 251,119 64,371 Nil Nil Nil 11,288 370,149
e 110,925 9,595 45,945 Nil 4,270 27,779 Nil 198,514
f 113,621 Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 113,621
g 97,724 1,401,486 25,884 180,343 Nil Nil Nil 1,705,437
h Nil 27,797 18,657 Nil Nil Nil Nil 46,454
i Nil Nil 10,581 Nil Nil 38,951 Nil 49,532
j 66,160 76,031 25,721 Nil Nil Nil 1,791 169,703
k 19,789 Nil 1,196 5,748 Nil Nil Nil 26,733
Total 1,418,036 2,057,895 906,393 223,642 25,207 109,027 59,814 4,800,014

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