Dáil debates
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Appointments to State Boards.
1:00 pm
Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
It certainly would not disqualify them. In the case of the CIE subsidiaries, the legislation historically provided that powers for the appointment of directors to the boards of Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann remained with the chairperson of the board of CIE itself, who made appointments with the consent of the Minister. This position changed very recently with the enactment of the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008, so the power for appointments to the subsidiary boards resides with me only since August 2008. In light of the recent enactment of the Dublin Transport Authority Act and its provisions for the planned absorption of the Dublin transportation office into the new authority, I have not yet made an appointment to fill one vacancy, which arose on the steering committee of the Dublin transportation office in January this year.
One vacancy arose on the board of the Railway Procurement Agency in January last year and one on the advisory council to the Commission for Taxi Regulation in November 2006. As has been my practice to date, I will identify candidates for these and other vacancies with a view to ensuring appropriate experience and competence at board level in our agencies, as well as with appropriate regard to gender balance.
I made two appointments to Drogheda Port Company some time in the past five or six months and I recently appointed people to the Shannon-Foynes Port Company. Being a member of a Fianna Fáil cumann does not disqualify people from being appointed to a board and neither does being a former adviser to a former Tánaiste from the Labour Party.
| Agency | Number of Vacancies | Date Vacancy arose |
| Galway Harbour Company | One | August 2008 |
| Dublin Airport Authority | Two | Both arose in August 2008 |
| Cork Airport Authority | Three | Two arose in August 2008 and July 2008 respectively and one in August 2007 |
| Irish Aviation Authority | One | April 2008 |
| Table 1: Appointments | |||
| Agency | Date Person Appointed to Board | Date Appointed | Remuneration and other details |
| € p.a. | |||
| Cork Airport Authority | Mary O'Halloran | 01/01/2008 | 14,000 |
| Tom O'Neill | 01/01/2008 | 14,000 | |
| Tony O'Connell | 01/01/2008 | 14,000. | |
| Sean MacSuibhne | 01/01/2008 | 14,000 | |
| Bill Daly (Mr Daly is a Non statutory additional worker representative) | 24/04/2008 | 0.00 | |
| Shannon Airport Authority | Joe Buckley | 01/01/2008 | 14,000 |
| John McCarthy | 01/01/2008 | 14,000 | |
| Linda Keane | 01/01/2008 | 14,000 | |
| Audrey Costello | 01/2008 | 14,000 | |
| Paul Dagger (Mr. Dagger is a Non statutory additional worker representative) | 01/01/2008 | 0.00 | |
| Irish Aviation Authority | Eamonn Brennan | 26/07/2007 | 14,000 |
| Claire O'Donoghue | 10/01/2008 | 14,000 | |
| Railway Procurement Agency | Mr. Ciarán MacSamhráin | 27/11/2007 | 14,000 |
| National Roads Authority | Eugene Moore | 10/05/2008 | 9,000 |
| Medical Bureau of Road Safety | Professor Denis Cusack | 01/07/2007 | Principal Officer (Higher Scale) plus an additional 20% in lieu of superannuation |
| Advisory Council to the Commission for Taxi Regulation | Brian Killeen | 24/07/2007 | 0.00 |
| Declan Coburn | 08/04/2008 | 0.00 | |
| Port of Cork Company | Paul Millard | 05/10/2007 | 14,000 |
| David Doolan | 05/10/2007 | 14,000 | |
| Dublin Port Company | Pat Magner | 25/07/2007 | 14,000 |
| Charles Rochfort | 19/09/2007 | 14,000 | |
| John Moore | 19/09/2007 | 14,000 | |
| Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company | Seighlin Lennon | 01/12/2007 | 14,000 |
| Drogheda Port Company | Martin Farrelly | 20/06/2008 | 7,000 |
| Nino Binns | 20/06/2008 | 7,000 | |
| Shannon/Foynes Port Company | Kay McGuinness | 25/09/2008 | 14,000 |
| Rita McInerney | 10/10/2007 | 9,000 | |
| Edmund Jennings | 10/10/2007 | 9,000 | |
| Michael Adams | 25/09/2008 | 9,000 | |
| John Carr | 25/09/2008 | 9,000 | |
| Dick Sadlier | 25/09/2008 | 9,000 | |
| Port of Waterford Company | Cllr. Thomas Cunningham | 29/04/2008 | 9,000 |
| Galway Harbour Company | Bobby Molloy | 04/03/2008 | 7,000 |
| Dundalk Port Company | Noel Lennon | 18/07/2007 | 1,750 |
| Cllr. Seamus Keelan | 23/07/2007 | 1,750 | |
| Wicklow Port Company | Cllr. Denis Teevan | 25/10/2007 | 1,750 |
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