Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the gender split to be applied when local authorities appoint councillors to the Northern and Western Regional Assembly; if he plans to legislate for gender quotas on the regional assemblies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53256/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The legislation providing for the establishment, constitution, functions, membership, etc, of the Regional Assemblies is the Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) Order 2014, S.I. No. 573/2014.

Article 5 of the Regulations sets down the number of members of each Assembly and arrangements for their appointment.

As per Article 5(2), "every member of a regional assembly shall be appointed by the constituent local authority of which such person is a member". Members are appointed at the annual meeting of the local authority held after every local election, or so soon thereafter as may be.