Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask a technical question about amendment No. 90 so that I am completely clear about the legislation. Amendments to section 22 relate to, for example, donations into the State from subsidiary organisations to a political party registered in the State, so if a branch of the Green Party, Sinn Féin or whoever in the North, makes a donation, either in cash or in kind, that must be declared. For the sake of clarity, the income limits that would apply for non-declared donations currently in the South do not apply to donations that come from, for example, the North to the South because one must declare everything. We are introducing a rule where there are two different sets of regulations. For clarity, it is all donations no matter the amount that would, say, come into the jurisdiction by way of a subsidiary outside it, which is different from the current rules that operate in terms of political donations in the South, because it is all donations.