Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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735. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49933/17]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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736. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [49995/17]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 735 and 736 together.

The only State body currently under the aegis of the Department of Defence is the Army Pensions Board. The Army Pensions Board is an independent statutory body established under the Army Pensions Act 1927. The Act specifies that the Board shall consist of a chairman and two ordinary members. The two ordinary members must be qualified medical practitioners of whom one must be an officer of the Army Medical Corps. The chairman and the non-military ordinary member are appointed by the Minister for Defence with the concurrence of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Army Medical Corps ordinary member is appointed by the Minister for Defence on the recommendation of the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces.

The most recent appointment to the Army Pensions Board was Commandant Zdenek Osecky as an ordinary member with effect from 24th June 2016. Commandant Osecky was appointed on the recommendation of the Chief of Staff to fill the ordinary member position which must be filled by a serving officer of the Army Medical Corps.

No vacancies currently exist on the Army Pensions Board.