Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the oversight his Department currently has in place regarding the operations of Caranua in the absence of a sitting board which has not been in place since March 2017. [24469/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The term of office of the outgoing members of the Board of Caranua expired on 24 March last. A process to appoint members to the Board, which was managed on my behalf by the Public Appointments Service (PAS), is now nearing a conclusion and I will be making the necessary appointments in the coming days. The outgoing Chairperson, Mr David O’Callaghan has been reappointed as a member of the Board and as Chairperson thus providing a degree of continuity and oversight. The functions assigned to me as Minister for Education and Skills under the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 in relation to Caranua continue to be performed notwithstanding the fact that there are vacancies on the Board.