FF spent €3.65m from war chest on general election

FIANNA Fáil spent a staggering €3.65 million, or €4.25 on each and every one of the 858,600 votes it got, in general election 2007, a report from the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) shows.

But how FF’s massive war chest was funded and by whom largely remains a mystery.

The disclosed donations of each of the main parties amounts to only a fraction of their multi-million-euro election splurges, leading to suspicions that parties are encouraging huge volumes of small donations in order to avoid disclosure and transparency.