Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of State board appointments that have been made under the aegis of her Department in 2014 without being advertised; the number that have been made of persons who had not formally applied for consideration of the particular appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46545/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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For the Deputy's information, 25 State board appointments have been made to bodies under the aegis of my Department in 2014.

10 of those appointments were reappointments to the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) and 6 were reappointments to the Residential Institutions Review Committee (RIRC). Existing members of the RIRB and the RIRC who have held office from at least 2008 were re-appointed earlier this year until 31st December 2014 or until such time as the bodies have completed their work, whichever is the sooner.

Two appointments were made to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (RISF) in 2014. As expressions of interest were received prior to the RISF Board's establishment in 2013, it was considered unnecessary to repeat the process in 2014 and those expressions of interest were reviewed when appointments to fill vacancies were being made earlier this year. One of the appointees had submitted an expression of interest.

3 members of the Board of Léargas were also reappointed in 2014.

As a result of a vacancy which arose on the Board of the Grangegorman Development Agency, in line with the requirements of Section 17(3) of the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005, a nominee of Dublin City Council was appointed to the Board.

3 appointments were made to the Board of the Higher Education Authority. Two were Ministerial nominees, while the third was the President of the Union of Students of Ireland (ex officio)