Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Since my appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs on 29 September 2004, I made the following board appointments. The advisory board of Ireland Aid was established in August 2002. The name of the board was subsequently changed to the Advisory Board for Development Co-operation Ireland in September 2003. In November 2005, the board was reconstituted and the following people were appointed.

I appointed two new members to the advisory board in February 2006.

The development education advisory committee, DEAC, was set up in 2003 to offer policy advice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Development Co-operation Ireland on development education and on ways to increase knowledge and understanding of development issues in Ireland. The following members were appointed to the committee in 2005.

In September 2005, I appointed Ambassador Anne Anderson, Ambassador of Ireland to France, to the Conseil d'Administration — Administration Council — of the Fondation Irlandaise, which formally administers the Irish College in Paris, in place of Ambassador MacKernan, who has since retired. In October 2004, I appointed Ms Maggie Doyle, a Paris based literary agent, to the college's board of management in place of Professor Prionsias Mac Cana, since deceased.

The Ireland — United States Commission for Educational Exchange, the Fulbright Commission, finances study, research, teaching and other educational activities between Ireland and the United States of America. I appointed the following members to the commission for the 2004-06 period.

In the period January 2001 to September 2004, when my predecessor, Deputy Cowen, was Minister for Foreign Affairs, the following appointments were made to the following boards.

The advisory board was chaired by Mr. Desmond O'Malley from August 2002 until July 2003. Mr. Chris Flood was appointed chairperson in September 2003.

The following were appointed to the development education advisory committee, DEAC, on its inception in 2003.

On 20 March 2001, the following were appointed to the Conseil d'Administration — Administration Council — of the Fondation Irlandaise in Paris.

In May 2003, Minister Cowen appointed the following to the Conseil d' Administration and the board of management of the Fondation Irlandaise.

In February 2003, the budgetary allocation for the DION committee on emigrant support in Britain was transferred to the Department of Foreign Affairs from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The DION committee has come under the aegis of my Department since then. The following were appointed or reappointed to the DION committee on 1 September 2004.

The Irish Refugee Agency was created in 1991. Board members were appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs for two year periods and boards were composed of an independent chairperson and representatives of relevant Departments connected with the admission of refugees to Ireland. Observers also attended on behalf of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, a number of voluntary agencies and individuals active in the field of refugee welfare. The Refugee Agency ceased operation and was integrated in April 2001 into the Reception and Integration Agency, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The following were appointed to the board of the Irish Refugee Agency in the 2000-01 period.

The Agency for Personal Service Overseas, APSO, was established in 1973 as a semi-State body operating under the aegis of the Department of Foreign Affairs, with a board of directors appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. APSO was integrated into the Department of Foreign Affairs on 1 January 2004. The following is a list of the board of directors of APSO as at 31 December for each of the years 2001 to 2003.

The former Minister, Deputy Cowen, appointed the following to the Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange — the Fulbright Commission — for the 2002-04 period.

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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Since the establishment of my Department in June 2002 I have made the following appointments to the State bodies under the aegis of my Department.