State Financing

The Standards Commission supervises the expenditure of state funding received by qualified political parties under the Electoral Act 1997, as amended (the Electoral Acts), and by the parliamentary leaders of qualified political parties under the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act, 2001 (the Party Leaders Allowance Act).

Statements of expenditure of the funding receved must be furnished to the Standards Commission on an annual basis. The Standards Commission reports to the Chairman of Dáil Éireann on the expenditure of funding received under the Electoral Acts and to the Minister of Finance on the expenditure of funding received under the Party Leaders Allowance Act.

This section of the website contains summary details of the statements of expenditure of state funding furnished to the Standards Commission.