Written answers

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Department of Finance

Election Expenses

9:00 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán 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]

Photo of Brian CowenBrian 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:

ConstituencyReturning OfficerTotal Expenses
Carlow — KilkennyMary Enright485,000.00
ClarePatrick Wallace350,000.00
Cork CountyMichael O'Driscoll817,058.86
Cork North & SouthMartin Harvey800,000.00
Dublin CountyJohn Fitzpatrick2,533,139.29
Dublin CityBrendan Walsh1,600,940.00
DonegalGeraldine O'Connor600,000.00
GalwayMarian Chambers-Higgins800,000.00
KildareEithne Coughlan487,406.83
KerryPadraig Burke683,870.14
Laois — OffalyVerona Lambe500,000.00
LouthMairead Ahern347,720.54
Longford — WestmeathImelda Brannigan495,254.00
Limerick East & WestPatrick Meghen650,000.00
MayoFintan Murphy550,000.00
MeathMaire Teehan300,000.00
MonaghanJosie Duffy476,885.70
RoscommonWilliam Lyster312,036.00
Sligo — LeitrimKieran McDermott300,000.00
Tipperary North & SouthMary Delahanty850,000.00
WaterfordNiall Rooney285,000.00
WexfordMarie Garahy428,797.21
WicklowBreda Allen780,000.00
Total15,433,108.57

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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