Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 1463: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of public appointments made by his Department since 1997. [1148/06]

Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 1464: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of public appointments currently vacant and yet to made by his Department. [1149/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1463 and 1464 together.

I assume the questions relate to appointments made to State boards currently under the aegis of my Department. A number of different statutory processes are involved in appointments to State boards. In some cases statutory selection procedures must be followed or nominations must be sought from independent nominating panels before appointments are made by the Government or by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. In other cases only particular public office holders may be appointed to certain boards. In a number of situations, only some appointments to the body concerned are made by the Minister.

In the context of the above, the number of appointments to State boards under the aegis of my Department since 1997 is set out in the following table: