Almost €200,000 was spent by candidates in the General Election in Kerry
Figures released by the Standards in Public Office Commission show the 16 candidates for last February’s election spent €192,161.09 on expenses associated with running for Kerry’s five Dail seats.
The top spender in the Kerry General Election 2016 campaign was the Deputy who topped the poll Michael Healy-Rae who spent €26,624 euro, €9,366 of which went on election posters.
Fianna Fail’s John Brassil who also secured a seat was next with €25,554, €9,578 of which went on posters.
Fine Gael’s Brendan Griffin was reelected spending €23,383 while Danny Healy-Rae who entered the race late and won a seat spent €15,575. Deputy Healy Rea’s biggest expenditure item was advertising at €9134.
Fifth highest spender was Jimmy Deenihan who lost his seat spending €18146 while Deputy Martin Ferris of Sinn Fein who took a seat spending €15,206.
The lowest spender in the campaign was independent candidate Henry Gaynor with just €113.50 cent.
The other TD who lost his seat Arthur Spring of Labour spent €11,647.
