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Thursday, 17 December 2015

Questions (201)

Robert Troy

Question:

201. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of appointments to State boards under the aegis of his Department; the number of appointments that have been advertised on his Department's website since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46259/15]

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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

As the Deputy is aware the Government introduced new arrangements to the appointment of State Board members in 2011. Under the new arrangements departments now invite expressions of interest from the public on their websites for vacancies on the boards of bodies under their aegis. It is open to all members of the public regardless of gender, political affiliations or geographical location to apply for appointment to these vacancies.

An Post National Lottery Board

In the context of the sale of the National Lottery licence I considered it appropriate to reappoint two of the Ministerial nominees to the Board; Mr. Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh was reappointed twice and Mr. Oliver Wilkinson was reappointed once in light of the disposal of the National Lottery licence. Consequently recourse to advertising the positions publicly did not arise.

Name	Appointed	Vacancy Advertised
Donal Connell (Chair)	Reappointed 29/02/2012, 01/07/2013	No
Dermot Griffin	Reappointed 06/11/2012, 01/07/2013	No
Caroline Murphy	Reappointed 06/11/2013	No
Oliver Wilkinson	Reappointed 06/11/2013	No
Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh	Reappointed 06/11/2012, 01/07/2013	No
Peter Quinn	Reappointed 16/02/2012, 01/07/2013	No

Public Appointments Service Board

Name	Appointed	Reappointed	Vacancy Advertised
Eddie Sullivan (Chair)		01/09/2011	No (previous member was reappointed) (Public Official)
Des Dowling*	01/09/2011		No) (Public Official)
Dave Walsh	01/07/2013		No (replacement for Des Dowling who transferred departments)) (Public Official)
John McCarthy	01/09/2013		No (replacement for Dave Walsh who transferred internally)) (Public Official)
Dr. Deirdre O'Keeffe*	01/09/2011	09/10/2014	No) (Public Official)
Patricia Coleman*	01/09/2011		No) (Public Official)
William Beausang	15/07/2013		No (replacement for Patricia Coleman who transferred internally)) (Public Official)
Judith Eve*	01/09/2011	09/10/2014	No (appointed as chair on 9/10/2014)
Eddie Molloy*	01/09/2011	09/10/2014	No
Dan Murphy	01/09/2011		No (previous member was appointed)
Bryan Andrews	01/09/2011		Holds office on ex officio basis) (Public Official)
Fiona Tierney	20/03/2012	09/10/2014	Holds office on ex officio basis, current CEO) (Public Official)
Sean McGrath*	01/09/2011		No) (Public Official)
Barry O'Brien	01/09/2012	09/10/2014	No (replacement for Sean McGrath who resigned from his post)) (Public Official)
Paul Lemass*	09/10/2014		No) (Public Official)
Anne Marie Taylor	09/10/2014		Yes
Eimear Kenny	09/10/2014		Yes
Oonagh McPhillips*	01/07/2015		No (replacement for Dr. O'Keeffe who transferred departments)) (Public Official)
Damien McCallion*	01/07/2015		No (replacement for Barry O'Brien)) (Public Official)
David Cagney*	22/09/2015		No (replacement for William Beausang)) (Public Official)

*The Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 states that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in consultation with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Justice and Equality should appoint members of the Board of the Public Appointments Service. The Board is meant to be representative of our client base.

The Act also specifics that in appointing members of the Board the Minister shall ensure that at least two of them have either or both civil and other public service experience and knowledge and two of them have expertise in human resource management, customer service and recruitment outside the public service that the Minister considers relevant.

Currently there are no vacancies on the Public Appointments Service Board.

The Institute of Public Administration (IPA) has a representative board with nominations from different sectors of the public service every two years. As per the Memorandum and Articles of Association governing the IPA, each of the nominating bodies/sectors is invited by letter to nominate its representative to the Board on a two-yearly basis and my Department has one such representative.