Ministers want laws to stop Sinn Féin getting State funding on top of foreign donations

Fine Gael's Peter Burke said that 'any party that gets massive sums of money from the US and other territories needs to explain exactly who provided the money and to what ends'.
Picture: Damien Storan.

Government ministers want legislation, to be included in new ethics laws, stopping Sinn Féin from getting State funding as long as it is receiving “significant” foreign donations.

Eight ministers from across the Coalition told the Irish Examiner that parties who receive large amounts of donations and bequests from wills should not be in receipt of State funding.