Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the number of public servants servicing on State boards since 2006 in an independent capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55910/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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In making appointments to State boards under my remit as Minister for Transport, my Department operates in accordance with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform guidelines on appointments to State Boards.

The Public Appointments Service (PAS) has responsibility for managing an open, accessible and transparent system to support Ministers in making state board appointments and it is open to all members of the public to apply for positions advertised on the stateboards.ie website.

Although the information requested by the Deputy may be available as part of the appointment process, under General Data Protection Regulation guidelines my Department does not have access to this information once the appointment has been made. Therefore, the specific information sought by the Deputy relating to public servants serving on State boards since 2006 in an independent capacity on Department of Transport State boards is not available.

Details of the current membership of all applicable State boards are published on the State boards website, www.Stateboards.ie: membership.stateboards.ie/en/department/Department%20of%20Transport/