Parties in no position to query Libertas funds

COMPLAINTS by Seán Ó Neachtain MEP (Letters, September 22) about Libertas funding of the no campaign in the Lisbon Treaty referendum leaves him open to a charge of hypocrisy.

The recently-published Standards in Public Office report expressed dissatisfaction at the fact that of the €11.8m spent by political parties during the last general election campaign, less than €2m could be publicly traced.

All the rest, according to our political parties, were donations under the legal limit of €5,078 and, therefore, not liable to be declared.