Vol. 473 No. 4
201 Ms Keogh asked the Minister for Equality and Law Reform the State and semi-State boards under the aegis of his Department; the appointments, if any, which have been made to these boards in the past year; the number of women who have been appointed; the percentage of women currently on each of these boards; and the end date of the current term of all of the boards. [1346/97]
Two State boards, the Legal Aid Board and the Employment Equality Agency, operate under the aegis of my Department. In the course of the past year I appointed a 13 member Legal Aid Board, which is comprised of the following 7 women and 6 men:
Ms Clare Teresa Connellan — Chairperson
Ms Nessa McMahon
Ms Bernadette Owens
Ms Louise Crivon
Ms Aine Elliot
Ms Mary Maher
Ms Anne Watkin
Mr. Dermot Condon
Mr. Robert Browne
Mr. Patrick C. Kennedy
Mr. Frank Murphy
Mr. Paddy Howard
Mr. Dan McCarthy
I made no appointments to the board of the Employment Equality Agency during that period.
Women constitute 54 per cent of the membership of the board of the Legal Aid Board and 82 per cent of the membership of the board of the Employment Equality Agency. The end dates of the current terms of office of the board of the Legal Aid Board and of the board of the Employment Equality Agency are 10 October, 2001 and 9 November 1997, respectively.
