Money well spent?
The Irish Times has the self-declared amounts spent by the various parties and groups on the Lisbon II campaign.
AT LEAST €3.5 million was spent by the main groups campaigning for and against the Lisbon Treaty, while the Referendum Commission spent under €4 million. Political parties said they spent about €1.47 million, including contributions from European Parliament groups, while various civil society groups and corporations revealed spending of about €2 million.
From the IT report
The cost: what the main groups spent
YES
Fianna Fail €500,000
Fine Gael €300,000
Labour €200,000
Green Party €13,000
Ireland for Europe €500,000
Ryanair just under €500,000
Intel €300,000
We Belong €250,000
Ibec €150,000
Generation Yes €30,000
NO
Cóir €250,000
UKIP €190,000
Libertas €100,000-€120,000
Sinn Féin €100,000
Socialist Party €55,000-€60,000 No To Lisbon €30,000
People’s Movement €20,000
People Before Profit Alliance
under €10,000
National Platform €3,000
OTHER
Referendum Commission under €4 million
Department of Foreign Affairs €700,000
European Commission at least €150,000
Figures supplied by individual parties and groups
posted by Kathy Collins
So, sinn fein spent 100,000.00 on the NO campaing…I wonder how much they have within the last few months spent on United Ireland Campaign…now that would speak volumes…eh?
Given the vested interest groups, the Dept of Foreign Affairs, Ryaniar, MI5 etc, the democrats (the Nos) did well.
Good to see the UKIP and IRA bonding.
Wow, Irish politics is a bargain!
Honestly every1 is cryin over the money spent. my problem is that there shudn’t have been a second vote which cost this amount of money. the second vote was being pushed by the government as they wanted a ‘yes’ vote and if the result came back ‘no’ there most likely would hav been another vote a few years down the line, costing more money, this being partly Sinn Fein’s motive not to spend like the others knowing what was going to happen. The ROI is a shambols, it needs the north of ireland not europe. 26+6=1