Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current nominations for vacancies on boards of statutory agencies under the remit of her Department. [15830/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The process by which a person is appointed to a state board reflects the conditions for appointment laid down in the relevant statutory instrument establishing the board. Nominations for appointments to boards of statutory agencies under the aegis of my Department can arise in different ways. Some members are nominated by prescribed bodies, individual office holders or organisations and others are appointed by me, as Minister for Health and Children, having due regard to the nature of the work of the board and the consequent requirement for any appointee to hold the necessary skills and expertise required to discharge the functions of that particular board.

I take it the Deputy is referring to current vacancies on boards for which nominations have been finalised. On that basis, appointments are due to be made by me to the board of Leopardstown Park Hospital and nominations for two of the positions on that particular board have been received from the Secretary of State for Defence in the United Kingdom, in accordance with the provisions of the relevant statutory instruments.