Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [4224/24]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As I hope the Deputy will appreciate, for policy and security reasons An Garda Síochána do not comment on matters of security.

I can advise the Deputy that there are two civilian drivers in my Department. They are both assigned to the Minister for State. Each driver has a working pattern of seven days on and seven days off, on a week-on, week-off basis, on opposite weeks.

Each civilian driver has a total contracted hours (gross) of 41 hours and 15 minutes per week. This totals 2,145 annual hours.