Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 773: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to his Department of the senior Minister's car in the period relating to 1 June 2011 to 31 December 2011 to include mileage and car related expenses paid to the senior Minister; if he will detail the salaries paid to civilian drivers, overtime, subsistence and travel expenses paid to them and all other related information, and the information should include any payment made in 2012 related to a 2011 claim. [10646/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is as follows: €53,024

For the Deputy's information I am advised that the average cost of the provision of a State Car and Garda drivers during the last government was around €280,000 per annum. The new Government has reduced this by around two thirds to in the region of €100,000, on an annualised basis.