Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis of his Department that have been filled since March 2011 to December 2013; the number of these positions that were publically advertised; and the number of female appointments. [1372/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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This Government has made changes in relation to appointments to State Boards and bodies with new arrangements involving advertisement of vacancies for applications from suitably qualified candidates and, in accordance with the government Decision of 12 April 2011, I have, each year, on my Department's website, invited Expressions of Interest from persons wishing to be considered for appointment to vacancies on State Boards under the aegis of my Department and this information has been used to inform decisions for such appointments.

There have been 88 appointments made to State Boards under the aegis of my Department in the period March 2011 to 31 December 2013. The table below details all appointments to State Boards which have been filled since 9 March 2011 to 31 December 2013. My Department first advertised for expressions of interest in such appointments in June 2011.

Appointments made to State Boards under the aegis of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources from 9 March 2011 to 31 December 2013.