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31/05/05 - Report on expenditure of the Party Leaders Allowance (2004)

31/05/05 - Report on expenditure of the Party Leaders Allowance (2004)

Table 2A Detailed breakdown of expenditure during 2004 of funding received by the Parliamentary Leaders of Qualified Political Parties under the Party Leaders Allowance

(The letters in the first column of this Table represent the headings below under which expenditure is permitted by the Party Leaders Allowance legislation.)

(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	1,919,912	452,903	741,692	39,063	Nil	131,788	16,763	3,302,121
b	Nil	Nil	189,746	Nil	Nil	29,443	Nil	219,189
c	Nil	46,455	25,428	55,875	4,788	76,177	35,850	244,573
d	98,074	186,087	53,185	Nil	Nil	78,929	340	416,615
e	173,595	2,925	81,117	782	Nil	6,656	Nil	265,075
f	246,055	89,569	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	335,624
g	Nil	964,680	40,822	184,625	361,500	Nil	Nil	1,551,627
h	Nil	48,344	16,620	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	64,964
i	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	32,042	Nil	32,042
j	137,514	35,994	45,246	Nil	3,551	Nil	Nil	222,305
k	2,251	Nil	9,161	5,093	Nil	Nil	Nil	16,505
Total	2,577,401	1,826,957	1,203,017	285,438	369,839	355,035	52,953	6,670,640

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