Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services
11:30 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witnesses. The most recent guidelines from the Department for appointments of CEOs to non-commercial State bodies and for appointments to State boards were issued in April 2019. I understand from the guidelines that there is a maximum of two terms in the main and eight years for a State board member. Sport Ireland had an extension issued last week for its CEO, who has been in post since 1999, and for its chairman, who has been in post since 2010. This appears to me to breach both the Sport Ireland Act, the guidelines for the appointment of CEOs to non-commercial State bodies, and the guidelines for appointments to State boards. Has the Department been provided with a business case for these extensions? What section of the guidelines or underpinning legislation provide for such extensions?
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