Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 November 2017
294. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her Department that have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable candidates, in tabular form. [49994/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Public Appointments Service (PAS) operates a dedicated website, www.stateboards.ie, through which it advertises vacancies on State Boards. Since this service commenced in 2014, with the exception of certain statutorily defined appointments, all of the appointments I have made to the Boards of bodies under my remit have been from shortlists of suitable candidates provided by PAS following calls for expressions of interest from members of the public. Appointments which must, under governing legislation for the Board in question, be made via a different process are: ex officio appointments; appointments following nominations from particular bodies; and appointments to North/South bodies. Appointments to the boards of Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency, being agencies of the North/South Implementation Body, An Foras Teanga, are made by the North/South Ministerial Council, arising from nominations on a 50:50 basis.
The table below gives details of all appointments, since PAS first began to provide shortlists in 2014, that have not come from the PAS process.
|
Board |
Name of appointee |
Date of appointment |
Appointment type |
|
Crawford Gallery of Art |
Susan McCarty (Cllr) Tim Brosnan (Cllr) Mary Hegarty (Cllr) |
06/01/2016
03/02/2016 06/01/2016 |
Cork County Council Nominee Cork City Council Nominee Cork Education & Training Board Nominee |
|
Foras na Gaeilge |
Gráinne McElwain Blathnaid Ní Chofaigh Seán Ó hArgáin Seán Ó Coisdealbha Seán Mícheál Ó Dómhnaill Conor McGuinness Rosie Ní Laoghaire* Barra Ó Muirí Máire Ní Neachtain Mairéad Connolly Mairéad Farrell Niall Ó Gallochobair Sorcha Ní Chéidigh Pól Ó Gallchóir |
13/12/2015 13/12/2015 13/12/2015 13/12/2015 13/12/2015 24/06/2016 24/06/2016 07/07/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 |
North/South Ministerial Council |
|
Irish Manuscripts Commission |
John McDonough Sandra Collins Michael Willis |
25/02/2015 31/07/2015 18/11/2016 |
Ex-Officio Ex-Officio Ex-Officio |
|
National Gallery of Ireland |
Mick O’Dea Stephen McKenna* Vivienne Roche James English Owen Lewis Maurice Buckley Peter Kennedy Bernie Brennan |
14/10/2014 21/10/2015 21/10/2015 05/05/2017 01/12/2016 12/12/2016 16/03/2017 06/12/2013 |
Ex-Officio RHA Nominee RHA Nominee RHA Nominee Ex-Officio Ex-Officio Ex-Officio Ex-Officio |
|
National Library of Ireland |
Eoin McVey Katherine McSharry |
11/11/2015 19/11/2015 |
RDS Nominee NLI Staff Nominee |
|
National Museum of Ireland |
Ingrid Hook Kathleen James-Chakraborty Mary O’Dowd Karen Wilson* |
06/07/2016 06/07/2016 06/07/2016 06/07/2016 |
RDS Nominee RIA Nominee RIA Nominee NMI Staff Nominee |
|
Údarás na Gaeilge |
Aindrias Ó Muineacháin Gobnait Ní Mhuineacháin Máire Seosaimhín Breathnach |
10/02/2015
31/05/2016
15/02/2017 |
Cork County Council Nominee Cork County Council Nominee Waterford County Council Nominee |
|
Ulster Scots Agency |
Allen McAdam Freddie Kettyle Val O’Kelly Ida Fisher David McNarry Julie Andrews Iain Carlisle Keith Gamble |
13/12/2015 13/12/2015 13/12/2015 13/12/2015 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 13/12/2016 |
North/South Ministerial Council |
*No longer sitting board members
