Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since March 2011 to date in 2013; the number of vacancies in State boards under his Department's remit since March 2011 to date in 2013; the number of vacancies State boards under his Department's remit publically advertised since March 2011 to date in 2013; and the number of appointments to State boards under his remit drawn directly from the public advertisement process. [50012/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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In the period of the Government’s term of office up to 30 September 2013, the latest date for which information is available, the appointments set out in the following table were made to the Boards of State Bodies under the aegis of my Department.

* Appointments to An Bord Pleanála and to the Board of the Environmental Protection Agency are of a full-time executive nature and are governed by statutory processes.

** The board of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority was reappointed for an additional month from 1 May 2012 and replaced by a new board from 1 June 2012 which will continue in place until 31 December 2013.

*** Appointments of the Local Authority Manager members of the Boards of the Local Government Computer Services Board, the Local Government Management Services Board and the Local Government Management Agency (which was established on 1August 2012, replacing the LGCSB and the LGMSB), are made by the County and City Managers collectively.

A notice was placed on my Department’s website on 19 July 2011, seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced persons, for consideration as members or chairpersons of the boards of State bodies under the aegis of my Department. Vacancies on the boards of other bodies under my Department’s aegis will be notified on the website as they arise. However, expressions of interest can be made at any time and will be kept on file in my Department for consideration as vacancies occur. In considering applications, due regard is had to the requirements of the position, the qualifications, experience and expertise of applicants, and Government policy regarding gender balance on State boards.

All appointments are made in accordance with the appropriate legislation governing appointments to each body. In some cases statutory selection procedures must be followed or nominations must be sought from independent nominating panels before appointments are made by the Minister or the Government, as appropriate. 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 another Minister.

In addition, although not a State Board in the traditional sense, appointments to the Board of Pobal, a not-for-profit company, fall to be made by the Government, having considered nominees from a range of stakeholders. The following persons have been appointed to the Board of Pobal during this Government’s term:

In addition, the following members were appointed to the National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee on 11 September 2013:

- Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan (Chairperson)

- Mr. Conor Smith

- Mr. Séamus O'Connor

- Ms Ronnie Fay

- Mr. Eugene Cummins

- Ms Philomena Poole

- Cllr. Finnan McCoy

- Cllr. John Kennedy

- Ms Catherine Linehan

- Mr. Tom Coughlan

- Ms Colette Spears

- Mr. Jim Ganley (Departmental representative)

- Ms Mary Connors