Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of executives of private or multinational companies that have offered to serve on State boards; and members of the Irish diaspora that have been appointed to State boards under the remit of his Department [53384/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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In line with Government policy to introduce greater transparency in the appointment process and in an effort to broaden the pool of suitable candidates for consideration for appointment to State Boards, my Department has, since mid 2011, requested the Public Appointments Service to seek expressions of interest from suitably qualified people for appointment to the boards of agencies under my Department’s remit as vacancies arise.

In the time available it has not been possible to analyse the expressions of interest received in order to provide the full information requested by the Deputy. I will respond directly to the Deputy when the information has been gathered.