Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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577. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her Department that have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable candidates, in tabular form. [49992/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I am responsible for the appointment of members to the boards of the Adoption Authority of Ireland, the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), Gaisce (the President's Award) and the Board of Management for Oberstown Children Detention Campus. Since becoming Minister in May 2016, I have made 11 appointments that have not come from the Public Appointments Service lists of suitable candidates.

I made 13 appointments to the new Board of Management for Oberstown Children Detention Campus with effect from 1 June 2016. The Board consists of the Chairperson and 12 Ordinary members. Of the 12 Ordinary members, I appointed 5 members from a list of suitable candidates following advertisement by the Public Appointments Service.

I appointed Professor Ursula Kilkelly, Dean of the School of Law, University College Cork as Chairperson of the Oberstown Board. Professor Kilkelly is recognised as a leading expert in issues relating to the detention of children and has published widely on youth justice issues. She was already a member of the Board since 2012 and had been acting chairperson since May 2015.

I appointed the remaining 7 members of the Oberstown board on foot of the requirements of section 167 of the Children Act 2001, as follows:

- Mr Jim Gibson - interim Chief Operations Officer of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency was nominated by the Minister for Health;

- Ms Fionnuala Anderson - an Education Officer in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board was nominated by the Minister for Education and Skills;

- Ms Sinead O’Herlihy and Mr Fiachra Barrett are members of staff on the Oberstown campus who were nominated for appointment on foot of a local balloting process by Oberstown staff in December 2015;

- Mr Pat Rooney and Ms Elizabeth Howard are local community residents in the vicinity of the Oberstown campus and were nominated by Lusk Community Council in November 2015;

- Mr Dan Kelleher is a former Principal Officer in the Irish Youth Justice Service, Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Mr Dan Kelleher was subsequently replaced by Mr Tadgh Delaney in the Irish Youth Justice Service, Department of Children and Youth Affairs. Mr Liam Walsh was appointed on 2 November 2016 following his nomination by the Minister for Education and Skills to replace Ms Fionnuala Anderson who had previously resigned.

I appointed Ms Miriam Dollard, a nomination of the Taoiseach, to the board of Gaisce in November 2016.

All other appointments that I have made to State boards under the aegis of my Department have been selected from suitable candidates identified through the Public Appointments Service process.

The information sought by the Deputy is set out in tabular form, as requested, below.