€80,000 in donations for Fine Gael from own TDs in 2019

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar (right) is listed as donating €1,781, with Simon Coveney donating €2,259. File picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

Fine Gael took in almost €80,000 in donations from its own TDs in 2019, the latest report from the Standards in Public Office Commission shows.

The commission reports all donations in excess of €1,500 and the 2019 report shows that Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and the Labour Party took in the largest sums of the total €175,000 donated to political parties in Ireland.