Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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872. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of each statutory instrument signed; each contract entered into; each tender issued; each tender awarded; each State board appointment made by her or by an agency of her Department from 1 January 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6685/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Procurement of services in my Department is carried out in accordance with relevant EU and national legislation. Tenders issued by my Department with a value in excess of €10,000 for ICT and €25,000 for all other contracts are published on the e-tenders website in accordance with the relevant limits. Five such public tenders were issued to date in 2016 and details are available at .

Details of all contracts awarded by my Department in excess of these limits are available in the Publication Scheme prepared under section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, which is available on my Department's website at:

Due to the breadth of my Department’s activities and its highly geographically dispersed organisation, many smaller contracts are entered into and it would not be practicable to give details of such smaller purchases.

With regard to Statutory Instruments signed in the period 1 January 2016 to date, the relevant details are set out in the following table.

TABLE: Statutory Instruments signed and laid before the Oireachtas 1 January-14 April 2016

In relation to appointments to State Boards during the period 1 January 2016 to date, I temporarily extended the term of office of the members of the Irish Manuscripts Commission on 28 February 2016, pending the appointment of a new Commission in due course. The names of the members are listed in the Table below.

TABLE: Members of Irish Manuscripts Commission

For the sake of completeness, I should say that, following a process carried out by the Public Appointments Service through , I appointed a number of persons in October 2015 to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The terms of office of 5 of the appointees began on dates in January and February of this year in line with the vacancies arising. The names of the relevant members are listed in the Table below.

TABLE: Appointments to the Irish Museum of Modern Art that came into effect from 1 January 2016 to date