Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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353. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of appointments to State boards under the remit of his Department that were made as a result of applications made through the publicjobs.ie website in the past three years; the number of board posts that were advertised on publicjobs.ie; the number of board posts that were not advertised on the website but instead were directly appointed; and the average pay to directly appointed board members. [4596/14]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Since coming to Office in March 2011, 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 advertisement on publicjobs.ie.

Of the 30 new appointments made at my discretion, 25 were advertised on publicjobs.ie while 5 were not and a total of 20 appointments were selected from applicants to publicjobs.ie.

With regard to board membership fees, it should be noted that fees are not paid to all appointees. In some cases members may have opted to waive their fees, some members will be subject to the ‘one person one salary’ principle (which precludes additional remuneration if already in receipt of a public salary) and others are Department nominees at official level who are not entitled to fees.

The board fees payable in respect of the 30 appointments made at my discretion are shown on the following table:

Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation Board Appointments

*Non-commercial Public Service Bodies are categorised in four categories according to the pay of their chief executive officers. The current rates of fees are payable to members of their boards are as follows: