Written answers

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Departmental Agencies

9:00 pm

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 383: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the position, salary, allowance and expenses paid to each of the employees of agencies (details supplied) in 2011. [15463/12]

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 384: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form a breakdown of the number of board members and their respective annual remuneration for 2011 of agencies (details supplied). [15465/12]

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 385: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a list of all agencies and bodies and internal organisations under his aegis. [15501/12]

Photo of Phil HoganPhil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 383, 384 and 385 together.

My Department has a role in agreeing overall staff numbers, with the agreement of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, for agencies under its aegis. However, the day to day management of each agency, including the payment of salaries and expenses, in accordance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines, is a matter for the management of each agency. My Department does not maintain the level of detailed information requested. That information would be held within each agency.

The following table contains the information available to my Department in relation to all State Agencies and Boards under its aegis:

Agency / BoardTotal Number of Board MembersRemuneration of Chair 2011Remuneration of Board Members 2011
An Bord Pleanála10PPC Rate €206,616 and the Non PPC Rate €196,285Ordinary Board Members - €127,588 and the Non PPC Rate €121,208
An Chomhairle Leabharlanna13€8,978€0
Building Regulations Advisory Board22€8,978€0
Dormant Accounts Board11€8,978€5,985
Dublin Docklands Development Authority8€0€11,970
Environmental Protection Agency5Top of FormSalary Scale Director GeneralNon-PPC: €173,647PPC: €182,787Bottom of FormSalary ScalesPPC: €127,588 -€145,952Non-PPC: €121,208 -€138,655
Housing Finance Agency11€11,970€7,695
Interim Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency8€11,970€7,695
Irish Water Safety13€8,978€0
Limerick Northside Regeneration Agency17€8,550€5,985
Limerick Southside Regeneration Agency17€8,550€5,985
Local Government Computer Services Board11€0€0
Local Government Management Services Board€0€0
National Building Agency8See IHCASee IHCA
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee12€8,978€0
Private Residential Tenancies Board11**
Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland12€11,970€7,695
Western Development Commission12€8,978€5,985

* Those PRTB members of the Board who are entitled to Board fees are paid

such fees on an attendance basis only. Details regarding the scale of fees and

the amounts paid are published in the annual reports of the PRTB.

The reference to the remuneration to chairs and members of Boards is to the level of fee to which they are entitled.

The Boards of An Bord Pleanála and the Environmental Protection Agency are executive in nature, and positions on the board are full time, salaried positions. Consequently, board members do not receive attendance expenses.

Following a review in 2011, the salary in respect of new ordinary member appointments to An Bord Pleanála has been revised downwards to €111,214 (non ppc) and €116,935 (ppc). The reappointments made since that review have been at these lower rates. As of January 2012 the rate of remuneration of the Chair of An Bord Pleanála has been reduced to a PPC Rate of €189,474 and a Non PPC Rate of €180,000.

A new Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency was appointed in November 2011 with a reduced salary scale, the PPC rate of €164,464 and the Non-PPC rate of €156,240.

As part of a rigorous appraisal of the State Agencies under the aegis of my Department, I announced, in October, 2011, further measures in relation to the rationalisation programme with the overall number of agencies being reduced from 21 to 12.

The Local Government Management Services Board and the Local Government Computer Services Board are merging as the Local Government Management Agency.

An Chomhairle Leabharlanna will be dissolved, with any key residual functions to be subsumed into the Local Government Management Agency.

The Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (HSCA) rationalises the functions of three Agencies including the National Building Agency.

The Limerick Northside and Southside Regeneration Agencies will be replaced through the development of new management arrangements in the context of the merger of Limerick City and Limerick County Council.

The Dormant Accounts Board (Amendment) Bill 2011 proposes to dissolve the Dormant Accounts Board.

Comhar (Sustainable Development Council) was discontinued at the end of 2011 and its sustainable development role is currently being integrated into the work of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC).

The agency rationalisation/efficiency agenda will be kept under review, taking the Public Service Reform Plan's recommendations into account, insofar as all agencies under my Department's aegis are concerned.

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