Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North-Central, Fianna Fail)
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236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of former secretary general’s, retired civil servants, directors of service, retired city/county managers or those of a similar grade in his Department that have subsequently served on State boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66002/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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In making appointments to State boards under my remit as Minister for Transport, my department operates in accordance with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation guidelines on appointments to State Boards, published in November 2014.

The State Boards division of publicjobs has responsibility for managing an open, accessible and transparent system to support Ministers in making state board appointments and it is open to all members of the public to apply for positions advertised on the publicjobs.ie website.

Although the information requested by the Deputy may be available as part of the appointment process, under General Data Protection Regulation guidelines my department does not have access to this information once the appointment has been made. Therefore, the specific information sought by the Deputy relating to persons serving on State boards is not available. Department staff holding designated positions are reminded of their obligations under the Code of Standards and Behaviour about the acceptance of outside appointments and of consultancy engagements following resignation / retirement.

Details of the current membership of all applicable State boards are published on the State Boards website www.publicjobs.ie/en/stateboards or on the Department of Transport’s website www.gov.ie State Boards Membership .