Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy will be pleased to note when I was in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, I made inquiries about a Toyota Prius hybrid car and was informed that the purchase of the cars for the ministerial fleet was a matter for the Garda Commissioner. I think we might have been restricted to EU cars. The Deputy will be pleased to know I have again requested a hybrid car and hope that by approximately April I will be driven in a Lexus hybrid.

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