Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

Will the Minister answer the question I asked, which is what changes he plans to make in the law governing financial donations to politicians or political parties? Will the Minister ban corporate donations, for example? The Green Party, in its election manifesto, promised to ensure adequate State funding of political parties based on electoral results and to ban corporate, institutional and foreign based donations. Deputy Ciaran Cuffe told a press conference that ending corporate donations was a core principle of the Green Party. What has happened to those undertakings? The Minister now appears to be saying he will replace the Standards in Public Office Commission with another standards in public office commission. He went on to speak about local government reform, which has nothing to do with my question. What is the Green Party position regarding the legal reform of political donations and banning corporate donations?

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