Written answers
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Appointments to State Boards
9:00 pm
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 467: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the names of all appointments made to State boards under his remit; the boards to which they were appointed since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32240/12]
Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table:
| Agency / Board | Name of Appointee(Chairperson highlighted) |
| An Bord Pleanála | Dr. Mary Kelly (Chairperson) |
| Mr. Conall Boland (Deputy Chairperson) | |
| Ms. Mary MacMahon | |
| Mr. Michael Leary | |
| Mr. Nicholas Mulcahy | |
| Mr. Gabriel Dennison | |
| Mr. Paddy Keogh | |
| Building Regulation Advisory Board | Mr. Aidan O'Connor (Departmental representative) |
| Mr. Paul Kelly | |
| Mr. Conor Taaffe | |
| Dormant Accounts Board | Mr. Michael Morley (Chairperson) |
| Mr. Des Gunning | |
| Dublin Docklands Development Authority | Mr. John Tierney (Chairperson) |
| Mr. Gerry Grimes | |
| Mr. Philip Matthews | |
| Ms. Lucy McCaffery | |
| Mr. Charlie Murphy | |
| Ms. Imelda Reynolds | |
| Mr. Michael Stubbs | |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Ms. Laura Burke (Director General) |
| Housing Finance Agency | Dr. Michelle Norris(Chairperson) |
| Mr. John Hogan (Department of Finance nominee) | |
| Mr. Phillip Nugent(Departmental representative) | |
| Ms. Jackie Maguire (CCMA Representative) | |
| Mr. Colm Brophy | |
| Mr. Michael Murray | |
| Mr. Padraic Cafferty | |
| Dr. Mary Lee Rhodes | |
| Mr. Jim Miley | |
| Ms. Michelle Murphy Lawless | |
| Mr. Gerry Leahy | |
| Irish Water Safety | Ms. Breda Collins (Chairperson) |
| Mr. John Considine | |
| Mr. Michael Cuddihy | |
| Mr. Tom Doyle | |
| Mr. Brendan McGrath | |
| Mr. Paul Murphy | |
| Mr. Seamus O'Neill | |
| Mr. Martin O'Sullivan | |
| Ms. Anne Ryan | |
| Ms. Lola O'Sullivan | |
| Mr. Christy McDonagh | |
| Mr. Tim O'Sullivan (Departmental representative) | |
| Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency | Mr. Rich Howlin (Chairperson) |
| Mr. John O'Connor | |
| Mr. Eddie Lewis (Departmental representative) | |
| Ms. Marie McLaughlin(Department of Public Expenditure & Reform Representative) | |
| Mr. Peter CareyCounty ManagerLaois County Council | |
| Ms. Ann McGuinnessRetired County Manager, Westmeath County Council | |
| Local Government Computer Services Board | Mr. Eddie Breen(Chairperson)County ManagerWexford County Council |
| Mr. Michael MaloneCounty ManagerKildare County Council | |
| Mr. Barry Quinlan (Departmental representative) | |
| Mr. Enda Holland(Department of Public Expenditure & Reform Representative) | |
| Local Government Management Services Board | Mr. Eddie Breen (Chairperson)County ManagerWexford County Council |
| Mr. Donal Enright(Departmental representative) | |
| Mr. Michael MaloneCounty ManagerKildare County Council | |
| Mr. Barry Quinlan (Departmental representative) | |
| National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee | Mr. Tom CoughlanCounty ManagerClare County Council |
| Private Residential Tenancies Board | Mr.Tim Ryan |
| Ms. Tricia Sheehy Skeffington | |
| Ms. Paula O'Reilly(Departmental representative) | |
| Radiological Protection Institute Ireland | Professor William Reville (Chairperson)Professor of Biochemistry UCC (Retired) |
| Dr. Paraic JamesSenior Lecturer, DCU | |
| Dr. Maurice FitzgeraldDental Council | |
| Dr. Patricia CunninghamConsultant Radiologist |
All appointments are made in accordance with the appropriate legislation governing appointments to each body. In considering applications due regard is had to Government policy regarding gender balance on State Boards.
A number of different statutory processes are involved in appointments to State boards. In some cases statutory selection procedures must be followed or nominations must be sought from independent nominating panels before appointments are made by the Government or by the Minister. In a number of situations, only some appointments to the body concerned are made by the Minister, or appointments are made with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
The Boards of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and An Bord Pleanala are executive in nature and members are employed on a full time salaried basis. The appointments as Chairperson of An Bord Pleanála and Director General of the EPA were made by Government following competitions held by the Public Appointments Service.
The Chair of the Board for the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (HSCA) has been re-appointed on an interim basis pending, the imminent, formal establishment of the Agency under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Acts 1971 to 2012.
The following members were appointed to the Board of Pobal, a not -for -profit company under the aegis of my Department, by Government:
· Mr. Séamus Boland (Chair)
· Mr. Thomas Maguire
· Mr. Liam Keane
· Ms. Siobhan McLoughlin
· Ms. Jennifer McHugh
· Ms. Marie Hurley
Article 3 of the Articles of Association of Pobal requires the Minister to consider nominations received from a list of stakeholders and the Social Partners defined by Government in 2005. The list comprises:
National Social Partners
- Social Partners party to the Sustaining Progress Agreement; and
Stakeholders
- Area and Community Partnership,
- County Childcare Committees, and
- City and County Managers Association.
A consultation process was conducted and 22 nominations were received from the Stakeholders and the National Social Partners were considered in bringing forward proposals to Government for the appointments to the vacant positions on the board.
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