Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 1264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of public appointments made by her Department or her predecessors since 1997. [1160/06]

Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 1265: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of public appointments currently vacant and yet to be made by her Department. [1161/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1264 and 1265 together.

There were 672 public appointments made by me or my predecessors since 1997. At present there are 53 public appointment vacancies due for consideration in my Department, the majority of which are replacements on management bodies of State colleges.