Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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596. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to her and to Ministers of State of her Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4226/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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As Minister for Rural and Community Development and also for Social Protection, I have been assigned two Garda Drivers, who are employed by the Department of Justice and as such, my Department does not hold the information requested.

In relation to Minister of State Joe O’Brien, he has two Civilian Drivers and the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Rural and Community Development each covers the cost of one of these.

Hours of attendance amount to on average not less than 41 hours and 15 minutes gross per week. The working pattern is on a (7 day) week-on week-off basis.