Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 December 2021
203. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies, in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of persons with a declared disability on each board; and the percentage of each board that is made up of persons with a declared disability. [62535/21]
View answerI am wholly committed to promoting diversity and inclusion on the State Boards under my remit as Minister for Transport, to widen access to a broader range of experiences, perspectives, and skillsets. My Department actively engages with our agencies to promote better diversity on our State Boards. We also engage with the Public Appointments/State Boards Service to ensure there is a broad pool of candidates for State Board positions and we will continue to work with them to make further progress on this core objective. I would encourage any individual who has the requisite skills to put themselves forward for these open competitions, which provide genuine opportunities to contribute.
There are 11 commercial bodies and 5 non-commercial bodies under the aegis of the Department of Transport. In addition, my Department also processes board appointments for 2 organisations under the remit of our agencies, namely the Railway Safety Advisory Council and the Advisory Committee on Small Public Service Vehicles.
Information in relation to the membership and number of members on each board is summarised in the following table. My Department does not record statistics on the number of persons with a declared disability on each board and therefore is not in a position to provide the Deputy with a percentage.
|
State Board/Agency |
Total Board membership |
|
Advisory Committee on Small Public Service Vehicles |
18 |
|
Bus Átha Cliath |
9 |
|
Bus Éireann |
9 |
|
Córas Iompair Éireann |
12 |
|
Dublin Port Company |
8 |
|
Iarnród Éireann |
9 |
|
Irish Aviation Authority |
9 |
|
Marine Casualty Investigation Board |
5 |
|
Medical Bureau of Road Safety |
5 |
|
National Transport Authority |
12 |
|
Port of Cork Company |
8 |
|
Port of Waterford Company |
8 |
|
Railway Safety Advisory Council |
14 |
|
Road Safety Authority |
9 |
|
Shannon Foynes Port Company |
8 |
|
Shannon Group PLC |
10 |
|
Transport Infrastructure Ireland |
11 |
|
daa plc |
13 |
Information relating to board appointments for agencies under my Department's remit and the basis of that appointment is available here on stateboards.ie and here on my Department’s website.
