Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The secretarial assistants are included on my Department's payroll as an administrative convenience but it is not their employer. The scheme is as I have outlined it and all these matters will be kept under review. The provision of cars to former taoisigh is a security matter as far as I am concerned and, as Deputy Kenny noted, gardaí or security drivers look after that, which is as it should be.

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