Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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2158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the role of the National Building Agency, NBA; if the agency currently employs staff members; the number of board members currently appointed to the NBA; the name of each person; the most recent remuneration figures for board members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26736/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The National Building Agency Ltd. (NBA) was registered as a company in 1960 and was the subject of the National Building Agency Act in 1963. The Agency was a multi-disciplinary, professional design practice set up to provide a broad range of consultancy services to public authorities in support of varying policies of Government including housing, urban renewal, urban and rural planning as well as other construction related activities. 

Following a review of functions of the Agency, the Affordable Homes Partnership and the Centre for Housing Research, the functions of those bodies were taken over by the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency. That Agency was initially established on an administrative basis in May 2010 and formally established by the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (Establishment) Order 2012 with effect from 1 August 2012. The National Building Agency ceased operating on 30 June 2011 and it is in the process of being wound up. It therefore has no employees.

Pending its dissolution, the Agency still has a Board with 4 members. They are Mr Rich Howlin as the Chairperson; Ms Bairbre Nic Aongusa, an Assistant Secretary in my Department; Mr John O’Connor, CEO of the Housing Agency; and Mr Peter Carey, Chief Executive of Kildare County Council. Mr Howlin, as Chairperson, received a fee of €2,130 in 2012. This was the last fee paid to Mr Howlin.  No fees have been paid to the other members of the Board.