Written answers
Tuesday, 8 February 2005
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Environmental Protection Agency
8:00 pm
Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 526: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the names of the current membership or directors of the Environmental Protection Agency; the date each was appointed; the nominating bodies, associations or organisations they were associated with or worked for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3538/05]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested is set out in the following table:
| Board of EPA Directors | Date appointed by Government | Employment prior to appointment as EPA Director |
| Dr. Mary Kelly, Director General | April 2002 | Assistant Director, IBEC |
| Padraic Larkin | April 2003 (for second term of 5 years) | Programme Manager, EPA |
| Larry Stapleton | June 2003 | Programme Manager, EPA |
| Laura Burke | July 2004 | Project / Operations Manager, Indaver Ireland |
| Dara Lynott | July 2004 | Programme Manager, EPA |
The directors of the Environmental Protection Agency are appointed by the Government following a statutory selection process which is set out in the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992. The Act provides for the establishment of a statutory selection committee whose function is to select not more than three suitable candidates from which the Government will make an appointment to the appropriate director post. The Environmental Protection Agency (Selected Procedures) Regulations 2004 require the selection committee to advertise publicly for applicants. In the case of the two most recent appointments to the board of the agency, the Civil Service Commission provided assistance to the selection committee in the recruitment process.
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