Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 December 2020
84. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the bodies under the aegis of her Department; and the composition of their respective board memberships, disaggregated by appointments through the Public Appointments Service or Ministerial appointments in tabular form. [42488/20]
View answerAs Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media I have responsibility for appointments to State Boards for State Agencies under the aegis of my Department.
Appointments to State boards are made via a process managed by the Public Appointments Service (PAS), who operates a dedicated website, www.stateboards.ie, through which it advertises such vacancies. Since this process was put in place in 2014, it has consistently been used by my Department to identify suitably qualified members of the public who are interested in serving on boards under my remit.
There are a number of specific exceptions to these arrangements including the appointment of members to a Board on the nomination of a third party organisation such as a local authority and ex officio appointments. Appointments to boards of North/South bodies are also exempt from this process and are made by the North South Ministerial Council, on the basis of 50:50 nominations from each jurisdiction. In addition, there are a number of appointments made by the Government, on my nomination, having regard to the advice of the Joint Oireachtas Committee (JOC), these are the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), RTÉ and TG4.
A table is attached detailing an overview and answer to the question you raised including the appointment processes to which I refer above.
