Written answers
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Department of Education and Skills
Ministerial Appointments
9:00 pm
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Question 201: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the details of all State appointments open to direct choice by him on 10 March 2011. [9150/11]
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The table provides information on the number of appointments the Minister for Education and Skills is entitled to make directly to higher education institutions and boards of agencies under the aegis of the Department.
Table 1 – Bodies under the aegis of the Department of Education & Skills
| Body Name | Appointments open todirect choice of Minister |
| An Chomhairle um Oideachais Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaedochta (COGG) | 3 |
| Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA) | 7 |
| Education Finance Board (EFB) | 4 |
| Foras Áiseanna Saothair (FÁS)Note: Responsibility for training and the governance of FÁS transferred from the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Innovation to the Department of Education and Skills from May 2010 | 10 |
| Further Education & Training Awards Council (FETAC) | 5 |
| Grangegorman Development Agency (GGDA) | 7 |
| Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) | 5 |
| Higher Education Authority (HEA) | 19 |
| Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) | 15 |
| Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) | 10 |
| Léargas - The Exchange Bureau | 8 |
| National Centre for Guidance in Education (NCGE) | 2 |
| National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) | 2 |
| National Council for Special Education (NCSE) | Up to 6 |
| National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI) | 3 |
| National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) | 1 |
| Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) | 12 |
| Residential Institutions Review Committee (RIRC) | 5 |
| Skillnets LtdNote: Responsibility for Skillnets Ltd transferred from the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Innovation to the Department of Education and Skills from May 2010 | 3 |
| The State Examinations Commission (SEC) | 5 |
| The Teaching Council | 3 |
Table 2 –Higher Education Institutions
| Body Name | Appointments open todirect choice of Minister |
| NUI (National University of Ireland) Senate | 4 |
| Universities | |
| UCD (University College Dublin) | 1 to 4 |
| UCC (University College Cork) | 1 to 4 |
| NUIG (National University of Ireland Galway) | 1 to 4 |
| NUIM (National University of Ireland Maynooth) | 1 to 4 |
| DCU (Dublin City University) | 1 to 4 |
| UL (University of Limerick) | 1 to 4 |
| TCD (Trinity College Dublin) | 1 |
| NCAD (National College of Art and Design) | 6 |
| Institutes of Technology (Minister appoints chair of Governing Bodies of IoTs) | |
| Dublin IoT (Institute of Technology) | 1 |
| Athlone IoT | 1 |
| Blanchardstown IoT | 1 |
| IoT Carlow | 1 |
| Cork IoT | 1 |
| Dundalk IoT | 1 |
| Dun Laoghaire IoT | 1 |
| Galway-Mayo IoT | 1 |
| Letterkenny IoT | 1 |
| Limerick IoT | 1 |
| IoT Sligo | 1 |
| IoT Tallaght | 1 |
| IoT Tralee | 1 |
| Waterford IoT | 1 |
| An Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann | 4 |
| Tipperary Rural and Business Development Institute | 3 |
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