Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 532: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has a policy with regard to frequent flyer points accrued by Ministers or civil servants; if these must be signed over to his Department or if they can be retained by the individual concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24900/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I can refer the Deputy to the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour (Department of Finance Circular 26/2004) and to Section 16.2 in particular, which deals with the receipt of gifts by Civil Servants, and provides that ''benefits under frequent flier schemes may be retained by individual Civil Servants in recognition of the fact that official travel is disruptive to personal and family life''.