Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of personnel in his Department at Principal Officer level or above who, on retiring from that position, were subsequently appointed to a State or semi-State board over the past ten years. [34932/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Public Appointments Service (PAS) has responsibility for managing an open, accessible and transparent system to support Ministers in making appointments to State boards. The Department of Transport operates in accordance with these guidelines in filling vacancies on State Boards under our remit. It is open to the public to apply for positions advertised on the stateboards.ie website.

Although the information requested by the Deputy may be available at the time of the appointment, it is not a requirement of the State board system that this information is recorded. Under General Data Protection Regulation guidelines my department does not have a justification to record the previous employment history of the board member who has been assessed through a transparent recruitment process as being suitable for the position.

Department staff holding designated positions are reminded of their obligations under the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour about the acceptance of outside appointments and of consultancy engagements following resignation / retirement.

A full list of board members serving on State Boards under the remit of my department is available on our website at membership.stateboards.ie/en/department/Department%20of%20Transport/.