Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Martin Hanevy:

I will answer that. The board is determined by the legislation. The legislation provides for 12 members that come from the county council, two parents, two people elected by the staff of the ETB and then there are five people who are co-opted. What is new and different in this legislation compared to the previous legislation is that the Minister determines a number of bodies who can nominate to each, such as bodies like IBEC to reflect what the Deputy is talking about fundamentally. The game change that has to go on here in training, apprenticeship and whatever else is for the board to have that type of input. That is being provided for in how it can select. It goes to what the Chairman was saying earlier. It is a partial change. It is not a change in the elected members coming from the local county council but it is a different way of doing the co-option.

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