Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether all senior appointment to tax payer funded positions in the public service under the remit of his Department including appointment to State boards, should be publicly advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3195/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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All senior appointments to public bodies under the aegis of my Department are publically advertised in accordance with Government Policy.

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.