Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of boards or agencies his officials have been appointed to; if there are guidelines or protocols for members of staff being appointed to boards or agencies; if so, when same were last updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6649/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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There are currently Department officials appointed to seven agencies or boards under my Department's aegis; the Housing Finance Agency, the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, the Local Government Management Agency, the National Oversight and Audit Commission, the National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee, the Property Registration Authority and the Land Development Agency.

As with all Government Departments, officials appointed to these bodies are governed by the provisions of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016 as well as the rules outlined in Circular 12/2010: Protocol for Civil Servants nominated to the boards of non-commercial State Bodies.