Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask Mr. O'Brien to forward us a note on that.

I wish to ask about a related issue. We talked about travel undertaken by staff and a travel allowance is a visible allowance members of the public can identify as being paid to a person for travel undertaken in the course of his or her work. Home care assistants, community nurses, social workers and others are on the road every hour of the day and there is no argument about their being paid an allowance for that. Do many staff in the HSE have company cars? I am not talking about paramedics but about the use of official vehicles that may be required to bring home staff of certain grades. Is there much of that? I have a sense that some people have cars and they are free to take them home or may be required to have them in the event of emergency call-outs. I am not talking about Mid-Doc or the out-of-hours doctor service . Does that arise much? What criteria are involved in respect of a person deemed to undertake a considerable amount of travel and thereby be allocated a car? There must be some criteria in the system on that.