Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Ministers and Ministers of State are entitled to a driver. Normally two drivers are allocated and they are employed on a week on, week off basis because of the length of the working day.
The shifts are not usually split where one person would drive the Minister somewhere with someone else having to drive him or her home. There will be an underspend in that Department in the second half of the year as I have not taken on any special driver since I took office. As a result of Covid, I am not keen on sitting beside somebody-----