Chapter 4 Donor Statements

Section 24(1A) of the Act provides that an individual must furnish a donation statement/statutory declaration to the Standards Commission, if he/she, in a particular year, makes donations exceeding €1,500 in aggregate value to two or more persons who were members of the same political party when the donations were made, or to a political party and to one or more of its members. The donation statement must give details of the donations and the persons to whom they were made and must be furnished by 31 January of the following year.

If a donor does not intend to comply with this requirement and a Member or a party is aware of this, the member/party is prohibited from accepting a donation from that individual.

Eight donation statements from individual donors were received in respect of 2016.  The table in Appendix 2(b) sets out the details of the donations disclosed. Donations with a total value of €37,274 were disclosed by the eight donors in respect of 2016.