Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 215: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list the number of public bodies under his auspice in which members of the board, employees, staff and other persons are required to complete forms under the ethics in public office rules, framework, regulations; and the number of persons required to complete these forms in respect of each public body under his Department and including his Department. [2078/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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1The public bodies under the auspices of my Department that are prescribed under the Ethics in Public Office Acts, 1995 and 2001 are listed in Statutory Instrument No. 707 of 2011, Ethics in Public Office (Prescribed Public Bodies, Designated Directorships of Public Bodies and Designated Positions in Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011.

Table 1 below lists the sixty-four public bodies under the auspices of my Department that are prescribed under the Ethics in Public Office Acts. The Table also lists the Designated Directors and Designated Positions of Employment which are subject to the Ethics legislation. In addition any staff member whose maximum salary is not less than the maximum salary of a Principal Officer (General Service Grade, Class B PRSI) in the Civil Service (currently €92,672) is subject to the Ethics legislation.

The requirement to complete a written statement of interests in relation to a person, who is subject to the Ethics legislation including for his/her spouse or civil partner or child of the person or of his or her spouse, only applies where there is an interest to be disclosed. Any such written statements of the Designated Directors or those who occupy Designated Positions of Employment in the public bodies listed in Table 1 are retained in the public body concerned and, in the case of the Designated Directors, are also provided to and retained by the Standards in Public Office Commission. Consequently, my Department does not have statistics on the number of persons who are required to complete a written statement in each public body. In relation to my Department, Table 2 lists the Designated Positions of Employment that are prescribed in Statutory Instrument No. 644 of 2011 Ethics in Public Office (Designated Positions in Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, and it also includes any position of employment which is remunerated at a maximum salary that is not less than the maximum salary of a Principal Officer (General Service Grade, Class B PRSI, currently €92,672). There are currently some 112 persons in positions of employment in my Department and its Offices that are designated under the Ethics in Public Office Acts.

Table 1:- Public Bodies under the auspices of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Table 2:- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation - Designated Positions of Employment under the Ethics in Public Office Acts, 1995 and 2001