John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Question 559: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the public appointments made in his Department since the Cabinet reshuffle in September 2004. [2096/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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I have appointed to my office four non-established civil servants on a contract basis for my term of office — Mr. Frank Lahiffe as special adviser, Mr. Tom Rowley as press adviser, Ms Mary Browne as personal secretary and Mr. Bobby Holland as personal assistant. My personal assistant is on secondment from the Department of Education and Science. The five statutory agencies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social and Family Affairs are the Pensions Board, the Combat Poverty Agency, Comhairle, the Social Welfare Tribunal, and the Family Support Agency. In addition, the pensions ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. In relation to the above, I have not made any appointments in the period concerned.