Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a list of applicants for positions on boards of State bodies in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42468/14]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department maintains a list of expressions of interest for positions on State Boards compiled from a public invitation to submit these. To date, over 470 expressions of interest have been received.

New procedures for the appointments process were announced by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on 30th September 2014.

These procedures came into effect on 1st November 2014 and consequently now all positions for State Board appointments can be viewed through the Public Appointments Service (PAS) portal at .

Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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211. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a list of applicants for positions on boards of State bodies in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42455/14]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department has, from time to time, sought expressions of interest from members of the public for vacancies on various boards of bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group by advertising on my Department's website. While to date, applications may have been retained on file in some cases, I can advise the Deputy that no formal list of applicants for positions on boards is held within my Department.

As the Deputy will be aware, the Government has recently agreed on a Revised Model for Ministerial Appointments to State Boards which complements the current system with a more structured approach to ensure that vacancies on State Boards are populated in a transparent way by the high-calibre personnel required to successfully perform their mandates. I am now working to implement this revised model.