Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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653. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of appointments to State boards under the aegis of his Department and the number advertised on his Department’s website since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46253/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Since July 2011, my Department’s website has been used as the primary mechanism for seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced persons, for consideration as members or chairpersons of the boards of State bodies under my Department’s aegis.

In line with a Government Decision last Autumn, a Revised Model for Ministerial Appointments to State Boards, brought forward by my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, has been put in place, operating through the Public Appointments Service, and will govern relevant future appointments. Under the revised model expressions of interest are now made directly by registering on Stateboards.ie. My Department’s website has been amended to refer any interested party to the website.

Details of appointments made since 2011 are available on my Department’s website at www.environ.ie/en/Publications/CorporateServices/TransparencyData/FileDownLoad.

In the case of certain appointments to State Boards, 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 addition, in the case of a number of boards, not all of the appointments to the body concerned are made by the Minister, and in some situations appointments are made by the Minister with the consent of another Minister. Furthermore, appointments to An Bord Pleanála and to the Board of the Environmental Protection Agency are of a full-time executive nature and are governed by statutory processes.

Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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654. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of chairpersons appointed to State boards under the aegis of his Department who have appeared before the relevant joint Oireachtas committee since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46268/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Since March 2011 the Chairpersons (or equivalents) of the following Boards have met the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht:

- Dr. Mary Kelly, An Bord Pleanála

- Ms Laura Burke, Environmental Protection Agency

- Dr. Michelle Norris, Housing Finance Agency

- Mr. Conor Skehan, Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency

-Ms Breda Collins, Irish Water Safety

-Ms Catriona Walsh, Private Residential Tenancies Board

-Mr. John O’Connor, Pyrite Resolution Board

-Professor William Reville, Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland*

-Mr. Paddy McGuinness, Western Development Commission

*The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland was amalgamated into the Environmental Protection Agency on 1 August 2014.