Written answers

Wednesday, 25 January 2006

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Ministerial Appointments

8:00 pm

Photo of Dan BoyleDan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 791: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of public appointments made by his Department 1997. [1156/06]

Photo of Dan BoyleDan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 792: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of public appointments currently vacant and yet to be made by his Department. [1157/06]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 791 and 792 together.

The five statutory agencies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Pensions Board, the Combat Poverty Agency, Comhairle, previously the National Social Services Board, NSSB, the Social Welfare Tribunal and the Family Support Agency. The number of appointments made to these boards since 1 January 1997 are as follows:

Agency No. of Appointments
Pensions Board 40
Combat Poverty 45
Comhairle, established June 2000 50
NSSB 23
Social Welfare Tribunal 17
Family Support Agency 20

There are currently no vacancies on the Pensions Board or on the boards of the Social Welfare Tribunal or the Family Support Agency. At present, there is one vacancy on the board of the Combat Poverty Agency, CPA, which will be filled by a CPA staff representative. There are five vacancies on the board of Comhairle. However, the Comhairle (Amendment) Bill 2004 proposes to reduce the membership of the board from 20 to 15.

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