Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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83. To ask the Taoiseach the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable candidates, in tabular form. [50005/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I appoint members to the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) and the National Statistics Board (NSB).

I appoint the NESC in accordance with the National Economic and Social Development Office Act 2006 and the NESC (Alteration of Composition) Order 2010 - SI 603/ 2010. I appoint members to the NSB in accordance with the Statistics Act 1993.

In the case of the NESC the legislation provides that I appoint members on the nomination of the organisations and interests set out, ie. business and employer, ICTU, farming and agriculture, community and voluntary and environmental sectors, public servants and independent members.

Since becoming Taoiseach I have appointed three members to the NESC following nomination by the farming and agricultural interests.

These are:

Damien McDonald, IFA

John Enright, ICMS

TJ Flanagan, ICOS.