Written answers

Wednesday, 24 May 2006

Department of Foreign Affairs

Departmental Appointments

9:00 pm

Photo of Willie PenroseWillie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 87: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish nominees to United Nations institutions and other international institutions; the names of such institutions to which nominations were made; and the names and backgrounds of those nominated. [19706/06]

Photo of Dermot AhernDermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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At present, the following Irish nominees hold positions in UN and other international institutions on foot of nominations for election made by me, or by my Department: Judge Maureen Harding Clark, elected in February 2003 to a nine year term as a Judge of the International Criminal Court; Judge Clark's Curriculum Vitae is at www.icc-cpi.int/chambers/judges/Clark

Mr. Michael O'Flaherty, elected in September 2004 to a four year term as a member of the Human Rights Committee, the UN Treaty Monitoring Body for the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights; Mr O'Flaherty's Curriculum Vitae is at www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/ hrc/membersCVs/oflaherty.htm.

Mr. Peter Croker, re-elected in April 2002 for a second five year term as a member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, which facilitates the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in respect of the establishment of theouter limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured; Mr. Croker's CV is at: www.un.org/Depts/los/ clcs

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