Written answers
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Department of Education and Skills
Departmental Agencies Data
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department; the number that have boards; the number of positions on each board; the number of vacant positions; and the agencies or organisations that have boards whose members have an obligation to appear before committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas. [51493/19]
Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The information sought by the Deputy, in regard to the agencies under the remit of my Department, is contained in the following table.
State Bodies are required to follow the terms of the 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies and other Department of Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform guidance, where appropriate. In the 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, Bodies are guided by the requirements for Board Chairs to make themselves available to the appropriate Oireachtas Committee in regard to their role as Chair (Section 2.8). Additionally section A.3.2.11 of the Department of Finance’s Public Financial Procedures guidance booklet offers guidance on the compellability, privileges and Immunities of witnesses under the terms of The Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses Act, 1997 (as amended in 2004).
Name of State Agency | Number of Board Members | Number of Board Vacancies, as at 06 December 2019, if any. |
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An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) | 12 | Nil |
An tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna (SOLAS) | 13 | 1 |
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA) | 6 | Nil |
Educational Research Centre (ERC) | 5 | 1 |
Grangegorman Development Agency | 15 | 3 |
Higher Education Authority (HEA) | 15 | Nil |
Irish Research Council (IRC) | 12 | 1 |
Léargas – The Exchange Bureau | 9 | 4 |
National Centre for Guidance in Education (NCGE) | 13 | Nil |
National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) | 25 | Nil |
National Council for Special Education (NCSE) | 13 | Nil |
Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) | 10 | Nil |
Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) | 11 | Nil |
Residential Institutions Review Committee (RIRC) | 5 | Nil |
Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (RISF) Caranua | 9 | Nil |
Skillnet Ireland CLG | 13 | Nil |
State Examinations Commission | 5 | Nil |
The Teaching Council | 37 | 1 |
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