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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 27 Jun 2000

Vol. 522 No. 2

Written Answers. - Ministerial Appointments.

Frances Fitzgerald

Question:

214 Ms Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of appointments made to boards, semi-State and private, under the aegis of his Department in each of the years 1997 to 2000; if he will give, in regard to each year and each board to which appointments are made, the number and percentage of males and females appointed to each board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17916/00]

The following is the list of appointments made to boards under the aegis of the Department of Health and Children in the years 1997 to 2000, showing the number and percentage of women appointed to each board.

Department of Health and Children – Appointment to State Boards

Board

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

1997

1998

1999

200

An Bord Altranais

29

20

68.97

An Bord Uchtala

9

7

77.78

2

0

0.00

Beaumont Hospital Board

1

0

0.00

8

2

25.00

17

5

29.41

5

3

60.00

Irish Blood TransfusionService

7

3

42.86

5

3

60.00

6

3

50.00

Board for the Employmentof the Blind

8

3

37.50

1

0

0.00

Board of the Adelaide andMeath Hospitals

1

0

0.00

23

6

26.09

Bord na Radharcmhaistoiri

11

3

27.27

Comhairle na nOspideal

1

0

0.00

1

0

0.00

2

0

0.00

Drug Treatment Centre Board

10

3

30.00

Dublin Dental HospitalBoard

13

5

38.46

14

6

42.86

1

0

Eastern Regional HealthAuthority

15

5

33.33

22

5

22.73

56

16

28.57

Food Safety Authority ofIreland

1

0

0.00

8

2

25.00

General Medical ServicesBoard

3

1

33.33

Health Research Board

18

3

16.67

1

0

0.00

2

1

50.00

Health Service EmployersAgency

10

1

10.00

8

1

12.50

2

0

0.00

Hospitals Trust Board

5

1

20.00

Irish Medicines Board

1

1

100.00

IBM Advisory com forHuman Medicines

2

0

0.00

Leopardstown Park Hospital

8

2

25.00

Medical Council

26

8

30.77

1

1

100.00

Midland Health Board

14

3

21.43

1

0

0.00

16

2

12.50

Mid-Western HealthBoard

13

4

30.77

15

2

13.33

National Cancer RegistryBoard

1

0

0.00

National Council for Ageingand Older People

30

16

53.33

17

6

35.29

Nat Co for Prof. dev. ofNursing-Midwifery

20

13

65.00

National Rehabilitation Board

5

2

40.00

1

0

0.00

5

2

40.00

1

0

0.00

National Social WorkQualifications Board

17

9

52.94

1

1

100.00

16

11

68.75

1

0

0.00

North-Eastern HealthBoard

14

4

28.57

17

0

0.00

Board

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

No. of Appts

Women

% of Total

1997

1998

1999

200

North-Western HealthBoard

12

2

16.67

14

1

7.14

Postgraduate Medical andDental Board

25

10

40.00

South-Eastern HealthBoard

15

3

20.00

16

3

18.75

Southern Health Board

14

5

35.71

19

1

5.26

St. James's HospitalBoard

18

3

16.67

1

1

100.00

13

2

15.38

1

0

0.00

St. Luke's Hospital Board

10

4

40.00

4

2

50.00

6

3

50.00

Scientific Comte FoodSafety Authority of Ireland

15

4

26.67

Tallaght Hospital Board

8

2

25.00

8

2

25.00

6

1

16.67

Voluntary Health InsuranceBoard

3

0

0.00

2

1

50.00

Western Health Board

14

4

28.57

2

1

50.00

17

4

23.53

Women's Health Council

23

16

69.57

15

11

73.33

Pre Hospital EmergencyCare Council

17

1

5.88

Total

333

123

37.27

76

29

38.16

339

97

28.61

122

33

27.05

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