Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation 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. [1379/14]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Since coming to Office, I have made 89 appointments to the Boards of Agencies under my Department’s remit. It should be noted that of these, only 30 were new appointments within my discretion. 21 appointments were reappointments and the remaining 38 were allocated under legislation to Department Representatives, social partners, nominees of other Ministers, nominees of prescribed bodies and appointments on an Ex Officio basis and were not appropriate, therefore, for public advertisement. Of the 30 new appointments made at my discretion, 20 were selected from applications from the public. A total of 25 vacancies on the State Boards under my Department’s remit were publically advertised. The specific information sought by the Deputy, insofar as it relates to appointments within the Minister’s discretion, is presented in tabular form below.

Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation - Agency Board Appointments within Minister’s Discretion