Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 July 2015
319. Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to the Exchequer of each of the by-elections held since the 2011 general election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28871/15]
View answerThere have been 8 by-elections to the current Dáil and Seanad which are listed in the following table together with the estimated costs, where available.
Four of the by-elections were held on the same day as another election event in that constituency and, therefore, the by-election costs reflect savings from a sharing of people and facilities. As a result of changes to the free postage arrangements for candidates whereby one item of election material was sent to each household in the constituency rather than to each person on the Electoral Register, where possible, there were also additional savings in costs for the Dublin West 2014 and Longford-Westmeath 2014 and also for the Dublin South-West & Roscommon South Leitrim by-elections.
The final costs of the Carlow Kilkenny by-election are not available as final accounts from Returning Officers are not due until six months after the election.
|
Bye-Election |
Estimated Cost |
Note: |
|
Dublin West 2011 |
€424,520 |
Held with Presidential Election |
|
Meath-East 2013 |
€472,900 |
|
|
Dublin West 2014 |
€276,900 |
Held with Euro and Local Elections |
|
Longford-Westmeath 2014 |
€401,700 |
Held with Euro and Local Elections |
|
Dublin South 2014 |
€547,081 |
|
|
Roscommon/South-Leitrim 2014 |
€566,143 |
|
|
Seanad (Panel Members) 2014 |
€7,179 |
|
|
Carlow Kilkenny (May) 2015 |
Held with Referendums on Marriage Equality and Age for Presidency. Costs not available. Accounts to be finalised 6 months after the election |
