David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to the Exchequer of each Dáil Éireann bye-election that has taken place since 2007, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17739/20]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The costs of all by-elections held since 2007 are set out in the table below.

Six of the by-elections were held on the same day as another election or a referendum and therefore the by-election costs reflect savings from a sharing of people and facilities (these are marked with an asterisk in the table):

- The Dublin Central and Dublin South by-elections in 2009 were held along with the European Parliament elections.

- The Dublin West by-election in 2011 was held alongside the Presidential election.

- The Dublin West and Longford-Westmeath by-elections in 2014 were both held along with the European Parliament and Local elections.

- The Carlow-Kilkenny by-election in 2015 was held along with the 2015 Marriage Equality and Presidency age referendums.

The costs of the Dublin Mid-West, Wexford and Cork North-Central by-elections held in November 2019 are subject to finalisation and an estimate has been provided.

As a result of changes to the free postage arrangements for candidates (whereby one item of election material was sent to each household in the constituency rather than to each person on the electoral register, where possible), postage costs have been reduced for each by-election from 2014 onwards.