Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all vacancies (details supplied) are advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19818/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Guidelines on Appointments to State Boards (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, November 2014) apply to the filling of vacancies on the Boards of the State bodies under the aegis of my Department.

These Guidelines state that there are a number of exceptions from the arrangements set out, including from advertising on the State Boards portal (www.stateboards.ie) operated by the Public Appointments Service, where a specific mechanism for the filling of a vacancy on a State Board is laid down in legislation requiring, for example:

- the appointment of a member to a State Board on an ex officio basis;

- a nomination by a third party organisation; or

- the appointment of worker directors.

Accordingly, not all vacancies on the Boards of the State bodies under the aegis of my Department are advertised on the State Boards portal.