Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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206. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the vacant posts on the board of the National Museum will be filled; the reason for the delay in appointing members to this board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17848/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Last Friday, 17 June 2016, I announced the appointment of a new board to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). I made the appointments following a public advertising and assessment process managed by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) in line with Government guidelines. Other than the nominees of the RDS and RIA, and the staff representative, all of the appointments were from applicants who had been vetted and short-listed by PAS.The board members are:

Catherine Heaney (Chair): Founder and MD of DHR Communications

Former board member of Heritage Council and Chair of its Audit Committee

John Bowen: Former Chairman of the Crawford Gallery

Chairman and CEO of the Bowen Group (1998-2011)

Mary Crotty: Managing Director of Mary Crotty PR (1983-date)

Board member of NMI 2011-2016

Ambrose Loughlin: Chair of the Audit Committee of the Department of Finance

Partner McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors (1989-date)

Judith McCarthy: Museum Curator, Donegal County Museum

Member of Donegal Tourism Sectoral Forum

Denise Moroney: Managing Director Brand Dynamics (1994-date)

Head of Marketing Irish Times (2015)

Declan Nelson: Board member, Pobal

Former County Manager

Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh: Associate Professor of History, NUIG (1989-2010)

Board member, National Museum of Ireland (2011-2016)

Andrew Power: Head of Registry, IADT (2015-date)

Board Member, Classification of Films Appeals Board

Lynn Scarff: Director, Science Gallery TCD

Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Maths and Science

Virginia Teehan: Former Director Hunt Museum Limerick (2003-2009)

Director of Heritage and Visual Arts, UCC

Aidan Walsh: Former Director of the Northern Ireland Museums Council (1993-2001)

Former Board member of the International Committee for Museums Management

Ms Heaney will appear before the relevant Oireachtas Committee as soon as the necessary arrangements to that end have been made.

I have also appointed nominees of the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), as well as a staff representative from the NMI, as follows:

Ingrid Hook (RDS)

Head of the School of Pharmacy, TCD

Kathleen James-Chakraborty (RIA)

Professor of Art History, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD

Mary O’Dowd (RIA)

Professor of Gender History and member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission

Karen Wilson (NMI)

Staff representative, NMI.