Written answers

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Departmental Funding

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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82. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding provided by her Department to the European Consumer Centre, Dublin, in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44167/17]

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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83. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the persons appointed by her Department to the board of the European Consumer Centre, Dublin; the number of male and female board members; the date of first appointment of each board member; the number of terms served by each board member; when the term of office of each current board member will expire, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44168/17]

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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84. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if appointments to the board of the European Consumer Centre, Dublin, made since November 2014 have been made in line with Government guidelines on appointments to State boards, including public advertisement of vacancies on stateboards.ie; if appointments to the board of the ECC Dublin are made in line with section 4.5 of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies on terms of appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44169/17]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 to 84, inclusive, together.

ECC Ireland is a company limited by guarantee without a share capital. It is a non-profit organisation and registered as a charity with the Charities Regulatory Authority.

Companies limited by guarantee (CLG) operate under Part 18 of the Companies Act 2014. Sections 1194-1198 of the Act apply in relation to the appointment of Directors to the Board. Appointments to the Board are a matter for ECC Ireland and I, as Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, have no direct function in relation to such appointments. Details of the current and former members of the Board of ECC Ireland are a matter of public record and can be accessed by contacting the Companies Registration Office (CRO).

A member of staff of my Department sits on the Board of ECC Ireland. He was appointed on 27 November 2013.

ECC Ireland is a member of the European Consumer Centre Network () which provides consumers across Europe advice on their rights when shopping in another EU Member State. The European Consumer Centre Network (ECC-Net) is an EU-wide network co-funded by the European Commission and the Member States. National funding for ECC Ireland is channelled via the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) from the allocation received by CCPC from my Department each year. Details of the funding provided to ECC Ireland for the years 2013 – 2017 are set out in Table 1.

Since November 2015, ECC Ireland is designated under S.I. No. 500/2015 - European Union (Online Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes) Regulations 2015 as the ODR contact point in the State for the purposes of Article 7 of the Regulation (EU) No. 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on online dispute resolution for consumer disputes. ECC Ireland is funded directly by my Department for carrying out the ODR contact point function. Details of the funding provided for the years 2016 and 2017 are set out in Table 2.

Table 1: Funding provided to ECC Ireland by the CCPC

Year
2013 214,840
2014 214,840
2015 214,840
2016 214,840
2017 – to date 155,189
2017 (budget full year) 214,840

Table 2: Funding provided to ECC Ireland for the ODR Contact Point function

2016 €45,000
2017 – to date €32,437
2017 (budget full year) €47,000

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