Written answers

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Ministerial Appointments

Photo of Michael McNamaraMichael McNamara (Clare, Labour)
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126. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of bodies to which he has the authority to appoint board members. [7015/14]

Photo of Phil HoganPhil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The bodies under the aegis of my Department, in respect of which I have the authority to appoint board members, are as follows:

An Bord Pleanála

Building Regulations Advisory Body

Dublin Docklands Development Authority

Housing Finance Agency

Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency

Irish Water Safety

Local Government Management Agency

National Travellers Accommodation Consultative Committee

Private Residential Tenancies Board

Pyrite Resolution Board

Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland

Western Development Commission
All appointments to the boards of State Bodies 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.

The directors of the Environmental Protection Agency are appointed by the Government. 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.

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