Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government 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. [3982/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department currently employs six civilian drivers. At this time there are no Garda Ministerial drivers assigned to my Department.

The total cost for the civilian drivers was €136,304 in 2020 and €300,028 in 2021. These figures take account of the drivers' salary costs and expenses, along with the mileage costs which are claimed by each Minister in respect of their own vehicles.