Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I said Senator, the vast majority of Fine Gael's funds have come and always come from our national draw and from my time as leader, anybody who wanted to participate in any social fundraising activities such as applied in those early years of golf classics or whatever could do so. I did not go on a campaign of asking developers or anybody else to say "please give me money." If they wanted to participate in a golf classic well then fine, all those things would have to be in accordance with the regulations of SIPO. But because of all of that perception and everything else put an end to all of that. If a deputy wishes to hold a golf classic now, they'll have a very minor nature and they have to be authorised by Fine Gael at national level. So if somebody wanted to hold a competition in Sligo or Donegal or Kerry or wherever they would have to have express authorisation to do that.