Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the procedures with regard to the making of transcripts at the employment tribunal hearings; if stenographer's records are taken and maintained in all cases; the procedure for making these records available to participants in cases and to the general public; and the location where these records are maintained. [21089/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Employment Appeals Tribunal is independent in the exercise of its quasi-judicial function and I have no direct involvement in its day to day operations.

I am informed by the Employment Appeals Tribunal that it does not engage the services of stenographers at its hearings. Parties to a hearing may, however, engage such services for the purpose of making transcripts and all costs in relation to this are borne by the party who engages the service providers. There are no provisions in relation to making such records available to participants or the general public. However, if a party seeks to introduce any part of a transcript in evidence, the ordinary rules which apply when a document is being used in cross examination apply and in such circumstances the Tribunal would normally request that the relevant extract be made available to the Tribunal and the parties concerned. In the event of transcripts being made available to the Tribunal, these records would normally be maintained by the Employment Appeals Tribunal, 65A Adelaide Road, Dublin, 2.

Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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81. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of all of those who were employed by the Employment Appeals Tribunal in the past ten years; and the roles that they occupied. [21090/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Employment Appeals Tribunal is independent in the exercise of its quasi-judicial function and I have no direct involvement in its day to day operations.

In relation to the personnel involved in the Tribunal, a secretariat carries out the administrative functions and Members are appointed to hear and decide on cases lodged with it under the various employment rights Acts that come under the Tribunal’s remit.

In accordance with the provisions of the Redundancy Payments Acts, I appoint the Members of the Tribunal. The Members include: the Chairman, Vice Chairmen, Employer Members and Employee Members. A list of the Members of the Tribunal for each of the years 2005 to date is set out in the Appendix below. I would like to point out that the list of Members is also contained in the Tribunal’s Annual Report each year. The Annual Report is available on the website from 2007 to date – see .

In addition to the Members of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the Tribunal is supplemented by the assignment of an allocation of civil servants of my Department. Staffing numbers of both my Department overall, and assigned to the Tribunal, have changed over the period in line with changes to public sector numbers in general. The specific grades and numbers of these civil servants over the ten year period requested by the Deputy are set out in tabular format below.

DJEI staff assigned to the Employment Appeals Tribunal

Appendix

2015 Members of the Tribunal

2014 Members of the Tribunal

2013 Members of the Tribunal

2013 Members of the Tribunal

2012 Members of the Tribunal

2012 Members of the Tribunal