Dáil election candidate expenditure limits

Summary

Asked whether legislation would cap candidates’ personal election spending; the Minister said there were no plans to restore the limit repealed in 1963.

Barry Desmond Mr. B. Desmond Labour Party

asked the Minister for the Environment the plans, if any, for the introduction of legislation to prescribe a maximum personal expenditure by any nominated candidate for Dáil Éireann elections.

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Sylvester Barrett Mr. Barrett Fianna Fáil

There are no proposals for the reintroduction of the statutory limitation on the election expenses of candidates at Dáil elections which was repealed in 1963 on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on the Electoral Law.

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