Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 1 July 2015
274. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the annual saving to his Department and the bodies under its aegis if all the fees for all State agency, non-commercial State-sponsored bodies and commercial semi-State board members were reduced by 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26977/15]
View answerInformation in relation to Board member fees, on which calculations of the impact of fee reductions can be based, is set out in the following table.
|
Agency / Body |
Post |
Number of board members |
Remuneration |
|
Dublin Docklands Development Authority |
Chairperson |
1 |
€20,520 |
|
Member |
7 |
€11,970 |
|
|
Housing Finance Agency |
Chairperson |
1 |
€11,970 |
|
Member |
10 |
€7,695 |
|
|
Irish Water Safety |
Chairperson |
1 |
€8,978 |
|
Member |
11 |
Nil |
|
|
Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency |
Chairperson |
1 |
€11,970 |
|
Member |
7 |
€7,695 |
|
|
Local Government Management Agency |
Chairperson |
1 |
Nil |
|
Member |
10 |
Nil |
|
|
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee |
Chairperson |
1 |
€6734 |
|
Member |
11 |
Nil |
|
|
Private Residential Tenancies Board / Rent Tribunal |
Chairperson |
1 |
* |
|
Member |
11 |
* |
|
|
Western Development Commission |
Chairperson |
1 |
€8,978 |
|
Member |
7 |
€5,985 |
|
|
Pobal |
Chair |
1 |
Nil |
|
Members |
15 |
||
|
An Bord Pleanála **** |
Chairperson |
1 |
PPC Rate: €175,877 - Non PP C Rate: €167,300 |
|
Deputy Chair |
1 |
PPC Rate: €124,716 |
|
|
Non PP C Rate: €118,581 |
|||
|
Member |
7 |
PPC Rate: €109,580 |
|
|
Non PP C Rate: €104,317 |
|||
|
Environmental Protection Agency **** |
Director General |
1 |
PPC Rate: €153,162 |
|
Deputy Director General |
1 |
PPC Rate: €136,216 |
|
|
Directors |
4 |
1 @ PPC Rate: €136,216 2 @ PPC Rate €124,716 1 @PPC Rate €119,381 |
|
|
PYRITE Resolution Board |
Chair |
1 |
N il |
|
Directors |
4 |
€2400 *** |
|
|
NOAC |
Chair |
1 |
€11,970 |
|
Members |
10 |
€7,695 |
|
|
Irish Water |
Chair |
1 |
** |
|
Directors |
3 |
** |
* Those PRTB / Rent Tribunal members of the Board, who are entitled to Board fees, are paid such fees on an attendance basis only. Details regarding the scale of fees and the amounts paid are published in the annual reports of the PRTB.
** In the case of Irish Water the appointments are executive in nature; details of their salaries are not available in my Department.
*** In the case of the Pyrite Resolution Board those directors who are entitled to fees are paid on an attendance basis.
**** The Boards of An Bord Pleanála and the Environmental Protection Agency are executive in nature, and Board members are full-time, salaried positions.
From 1 May 2009, fees were reduced by 10% in line with the Government decision to revise the fees for non-executive Chairpersons and members of Boards of State Bodies. From 1 January 2010, fees were further reduced in line with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009.
Reference to remuneration for chairs and members of Boards is to the level of fee to which they are entitled. Where public servants are appointed to Boards, no fees are payable.
Details in relation to the fees paid to individual Board members are also available within the respective annual reports of the individual agencies.
