33. What criteria determine allocation for free or subsidized access to media for political parties?
Ireland
Answer
- Number of candidates
- Votes Received
Source
Election broadcasting [...] available to any party or group fielding at least seven candidates. [...] Time allocated to each group is based on the group's votes in last election and number and geographical spread of its candidates.
Source: Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow (2003) Democracy transformed?: expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 103.
This broadcast time is allocated to political parties on the basis of the first preference results from the previous general elections.
Source: GRECO (2009) Evaluation Report on Ireland, Transparency of Party Funding (Theme II), p. 9.
