Written answers
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Appointments to State Boards
Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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927. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the number of appointments to such boards; the number of vacancies on State boards; the number of vacancies on State boards publically advertised; and the number of appointments to State boards drawn directly from the public advertisement process, in the period March 2011 to 2015 to date. [23579/15]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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In 2014, the Government approved new guidelines covering the process to be used in making all appointments to State boards. The Public Appointments Service (PAS) has assumed responsibility for managing this new process and my Department has nominated a State Boards Liaison Officer, who will engage with PAS to ensure compliance with the guidelines.
Details regarding appointments to State boards in the bodies funded from my Department's Vote since the establishment of the Department on 2 June 2011 are provided in the table.
It should be noted that appointments to the boards of Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency, being agencies of the North South Implementation Body, An Foras Teanga, are made by the North South Ministerial Council, arising from nominations on a 50:50 basis from each jurisdiction.
| Board | Vacancies arising since the Department was established on 2 June 2011 | Current Vacancies (2015) | Appointments made since the Department was established on 2 June 2011 | The number that were publicly advertised since March 2011 | Number drawn from the public advertisement process since March 2011 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | ||||
| National Gallery of Ireland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 (there were also changes in 3 ex-officio positions on the Board and the nominee of the Royal Hibernian Academy) |
| National Concert Hall | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| National Library of Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| National Museum of Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Irish Museum of Modern Art | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Irish Film Board | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| Arts Council | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 9 (there was also 1 re-appointment) |
| Heritage Council | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| National Archives Advisory Council | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 (no expressions of interest were received) |
| Crawford Art Gallery | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 (there were also 7 re-appointments and 1 ex-officio appointment) |
| Chester Beatty Library | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 (there was also 1 ex-officio appointment and 1 appointment of a nominee of the Taoiseach) |
| Údarás na Gaeltachta | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 (there were also 5 appointments on foot of nominations by County Councils with Gaeltacht areas within their jurisdictions) |
| Foras na Gaeilge | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | N/A | N/A | |
| Ulster-Scots Agency | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
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