11/11/04 - Report to Ceann Comhairle re European elections of 11 June 2004

Appendix 4 - Expenditure on individual candidates at the European election

The following should be noted:

• Candidates are listed alphabetically.
• The candidate's name, political party (if any) and constituency (East, North West, South & Dublin) are contained in column 1.
• The expenditure limit applying to candidates at the election was €230,000
• As well as other expenditure, the limit took account of the commercial price of property, goods or services, received free or below cost, which were used at the election.
• A candidate of a political party was entitled to assign to the party any portion, up to 100%, of his or her expenditure limit. If an assignment was made, the amount available for expenditure by the election agent of the candidate concerned was reduced accordingly.
• There was no separate expenditure limit for political parties. The only expenditure permitted at the election by the national agent of a political party was the total amount assigned to the party by its candidates. Expenditure by the national agent was on the party's national campaign or on individual candidates. Total expenditure on a candidate by the candidate's election agent and the national agent of the candidate's political party could not exceed the expenditure limit for that candidate.
• The amount in column 2 represents expenditure accounted for by the candidate's election agent.
• The amount in column 3 represents expenditure accounted for by the national agent of the candidate's political party which is directly related to the candidate concerned.
• The amount in column 5 represents expenditure on the candidate which was met out of public funds (e.g. use of Oireachtas facilities, etc.). This amount is included in the total in column 4.

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