Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department that have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable candidates, in tabular form. [50006/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Section 9.1.1 of the Guidelines on Appointments to State Boards allows for a director appointment outside of the PAS process where ‘A specific mechanism for the filling of a vacancy on a State Board is laid down in legislation’

Under Section 6(1) of the Harbours Act 2015 I have the power to appoint 2 additional directors on a temporary basis to the Board of a port company whose shareholding is transferring to the local authority.

The purpose of the section is to provide the new shareholder with board level representation during the transition period ahead of transfer and any appointment made under the section will automatically cease with effect from 31 July 2018 or earlier if the Minister so specifies.

The appointments that I have made to State boards within my remit that have not come from the Public Appointments Service are under this provision and the details requested by the Deputy are set out in the table below: