Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
288. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies; the total number of members of each board; the numbers on each board broken down according to gender; and the number of persons with a declared disability on each board in tabular form. [41398/22]
View answerAs Minister for Transport, I am wholly committed to promoting gender balance, diversity and inclusion on the State Boards under my remit. My department actively engages with our agencies, stakeholders and the Public Appointments Service to promote better gender balance on our State Boards. In March of this year I hosted a webinar to encourage as broad a pool of candidates as possible to apply for appointments to transport Boards, particularly individuals in groups that have traditionally been under-represented.
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 gender breakdown 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 are therefore not in a position to provide the Deputy with the information requested.
|
State Board/Agency |
Total Board membership |
Gender Breakdown |
No of current vacancies |
|
|
Male |
Female |
|||
|
Advisory Committee on Small Public Service Vehicles |
18 |
11 |
4 |
3 |
|
Bus Átha Cliath |
9 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
|
Bus Éireann |
9 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
|
Córas Iompair Éireann |
12 |
8 |
4 |
0 |
|
Dublin Port Company |
8 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
|
Iarnród Éireann |
9 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
|
Irish Aviation Authority |
9 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
|
Marine Casualty Investigation Board |
7 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
Medical Bureau of Road Safety |
5 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
National Transport Authority |
12 |
8 |
4 |
0 |
|
Port of Cork Company |
8 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
|
Port of Waterford Company |
8 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
|
Railway Safety Advisory Council |
14 |
8 |
5 |
1 |
|
Road Safety Authority |
9 |
4 |
5 |
0 |
|
Shannon Foynes Port Company |
8 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
|
Shannon Group PLC |
10 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
|
Transport Infrastructure Ireland |
11 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
|
daa plc |
13 |
10 |
2 |
1 |
Information as requested by the Deputy including details of the State Board and details in relation to the current membership of each board is available on stateboards.ie and on my department’s website.
