Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I stated in my reply, I made eight appointments last year. Four were men and four were women. I have made it clear that it is my intention in the limited number of appointments I have to make to increase the number of women appointees. The membership of the council now comprises 71% males and 29% females, but the appointments made last year, in June and July, were on a 50:50 basis.

On the vacancies being advertised on websites of Departments, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport published on its website an advertisement seeking expressions of interest in appointments as chairpersons of the boards of the CIE companies-----

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