Written answers
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Department of Finance
Election Expenses
9:00 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amounts paid to each returning official in respect of their election expenses accounts for the 2007 general election; and the estimate, where the amounts have not been finalised, of the amount to be paid on a constituency basis. [13527/08]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Section 32 of the Electoral Act, 1992, as amended by Section 14 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001, sets out the statutory basis for the payment of expenses to Returning Officers in respect of Dáil elections.
I, as Minister for Finance, sanctioned a Schedule of Charges (Charges Order) which sets out the scale of maximum charges for Returning Officers' for the purpose of the General Election which was held on 24 May 2007.
€15,433,108.57 is the total amount of expenses incurred by Returning Officers to date. Details are set out below on a constituency/Returning Officer basis:
Constituency | Returning Officer | Total Expenses |
€ | ||
Carlow — Kilkenny | Mary Enright | 485,000.00 |
Clare | Patrick Wallace | 350,000.00 |
Cork County | Michael O'Driscoll | 817,058.86 |
Cork North & South | Martin Harvey | 800,000.00 |
Dublin County | John Fitzpatrick | 2,533,139.29 |
Dublin City | Brendan Walsh | 1,600,940.00 |
Donegal | Geraldine O'Connor | 600,000.00 |
Galway | Marian Chambers-Higgins | 800,000.00 |
Kildare | Eithne Coughlan | 487,406.83 |
Kerry | Padraig Burke | 683,870.14 |
Laois — Offaly | Verona Lambe | 500,000.00 |
Louth | Mairead Ahern | 347,720.54 |
Longford — Westmeath | Imelda Brannigan | 495,254.00 |
Limerick East & West | Patrick Meghen | 650,000.00 |
Mayo | Fintan Murphy | 550,000.00 |
Meath | Maire Teehan | 300,000.00 |
Monaghan | Josie Duffy | 476,885.70 |
Roscommon | William Lyster | 312,036.00 |
Sligo — Leitrim | Kieran McDermott | 300,000.00 |
Tipperary North & South | Mary Delahanty | 850,000.00 |
Waterford | Niall Rooney | 285,000.00 |
Wexford | Marie Garahy | 428,797.21 |
Wicklow | Breda Allen | 780,000.00 |
Total | 15,433,108.57 |
The majority of claims for expenses received from Returning Officers in respect of the 2007 General Election have been processed and the remainder will be finalised in the coming weeks. While further claims cannot be ruled out it is unlikely that any more claims will be received. It is likely that any such claim would be for relatively small amounts.
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