Haylen has been under fire over the revelations that she used a ministerial driver to attend a private lunch at Brokenwood Winery in the Hunter Valley.

Jo Haylen resigned as NSW Transport Minister on Tuesday after a three-day furore surrounding her use of taxpayer-funded drivers for personal trips, saying it had become too great a distraction for the government and from its agenda.

NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen has resigned from her job in the wake of the growing ‘chauffeur scandal’. Ms Haylen has admitted to using taxpayer-funded drivers to ferry her to a lunch in the Blue Mountains, and to ferry her and her children to sporting fixtures around the greater Sydney area.

NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen has resigned over her use of taxpayer-funded drivers for private trips and admitted to a second Hunter Valley visit. Ms Haylen confirmed she and her husband were driven to the region last year,

The NSW transport minister had been under pressure after it was revealed she used a taxpayer-funded driver to take her to a winery lunch and drop her child off at a weekend sport.

Haylen, one of Premier Chris Minns’ closest allies in parliament, will step down from the ministry after a string of revelations surrounding her use of ministerial vehicles.

Sky News host Chris Kenny discusses how NSW Labor's Transport Minister Jo Haylen was “forced to quit” today after booking an Australia Day long weekend lunch in a taxpayer-funded chauffeur driven van.