Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda drivers; and the total costs including salaries, maintenance, fuel and so on incurred by the driver corps in 2020 and 2021. [3974/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The former Minister and Minister of State had a corps of four drivers up to June 2020. The costs for this period in 2020 including salaries, fuel, redundancies and severance pay was €127,682.

From July 2020 Minister Ryan's driving costs have been funded by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

Minister of State Naughton has had two drivers since July 2020. The costs of these two drivers including salaries, fuel and other expenses were €134,838 across 2020 and 2021.