http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire … 55552.html
HE PROVISION of Garda drivers and State cars to Cabinet Ministers, former taoisigh, the President, Chief Whip, Ceann Comhairle and others has cost almost €11 million in the past two years, it has emerged.
This represents expenditure of €105,000 per week, or €15,000 per day. Fine Gael has vowed to end the practice of supplying the cars and Garda drivers, saying if it were in government a car pooling system would be introduced.
What can I say……..€15,000 per day…..to put it in context thats the same as paying one day’s jobseekers allowance (€32.67) to 459 peopl.