Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of John Paul PhelanJohn Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It's ... it's to the party, but it's a ... a culmination or an aggregate ... it's an aggregate. I'll read her full statement here:

That Fianna Fáil candidates were the beneficiary of more disclosed donations than candidates from other parties is not surprising because [proportionately, they had more candidates running] ... Of the 466 [she gave this as an example] candidates that ran in the [election in 2002], 22 per cent were from Fianna Fáil. Nonetheless, during that election year, Fianna Fáil received two-thirds of all ... funding disclosed which means that candidates from that party were in receipt of seven times more disclosed donations than a non-Fianna Fáil candidate.

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