Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 503: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of board members sitting on the boards of each State agency under his Department's control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39235/10]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The information requested in respect of the number of board members currently sitting on the boards of the State agencies and bodies under my Department's aegis is set out in a table:-

*These figures include the Chairperson.

** There are two Co-Chairpersons available to the Designated Areas Appeals Advisory Board.

***The Chairperson of the EPA Committee is the Director General of the EPA.

The functions of the Fire Services Council are being undertaken by my Department since the term of office of its members expired on 30 June 2009. It is not intended to reappoint a Council.

The administrative functions of the Rent Tribunal were transferred to the PRTB with effect from 1 October 2009.

The Limerick Northside and Southside Regeneration Agencies are already serviced by a single executive. It is proposed formally to merge both agencies, thereby achieving greater efficiencies.

It is intended that the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, a single streamlined housing agency, will take on a range of housing functions currently performed by the Affordable Homes Partnership (AHP), the Centre for Housing Research (CHR) and the National Building Agency (NBA), as well as new functions reflecting current housing policy (for example, in the area of social leasing). As a result, the AHP, the CHR and the NBA will be wound up. This agency has already been established on an administrative basis, and it is expected that it will be placed on a statutory footing next year.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 504: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the annual budget of each State agency under his Department's control in each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39249/10]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Provisions made in my Department's Vote, as set out in the annual Revised Estimates for Public Services volumes for the years concerned, in respect of bodies in receipt of funds through the Vote are set out in the following table.

Further financial and other information in respect of State agencies referred to above (including in relation to own resources income), and relating to agencies which are not in receipt of funds through my Department's Vote, is available in the Annual Reports and Accounts of the agencies concerned.