Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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113. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacancies on State boards under the remit of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39706/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The following are the vacancies on State Board under the remit of my Department:

There are three vacancies on the Board of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). Following a recent call for expressions of interest from the public through the Public Appointments Service, I anticipate that I will shortly receive a shortlist of suitably qualified candidates from which I will be able to fill two of these vacancies on the Board of the NMI. The third vacancy on the Board of the NMI is for a staff representative. A process is underway in the NMI, under Section 19 of the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997, to identify a staff representative to fill this vacancy.

There are two vacancies on the Board of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. I intend that a process will be initiated shortly with the Public Appointments Service to identify a shortlist of suitably qualified candidates to fill these vacancies.

There are three vacancies on the Board of Foras na Gaeilge, an Agency of the North/South Language Body, An Foras Teanga. Appointments to boards of North/South bodies are made by the North South Ministerial Council, on the basis of 50:50 nominations from each jurisdiction. Current vacancies on the Board of Foras na Gaeilge are in respect of Northern nominations.