Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am glad to confirm the Electoral Commission is now up and running. It is an organisation that will need many resources and many teeth because we need to clean up politics. What Sinn Féin has been claiming about its finances is simply not credible. To say in 2019 it only spent €4,775 on all its local election candidates beggars belief. It cannot be true. I do not believe it. It is important that people who ran for Sinn Féin in the local elections in 2019 and received support come forward and say so, at least to clear their names if their party will not do it for them. I agree with the Deputy's remarks in that regard. I am disappointed we are not having a debate on Sinn Féin's finances in the House this week and that the party is even being protected to a certain extent by some of the other Opposition parties in this regard.

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