Robert Troy
Ceist:93. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will appoint a golf representative to the board of Sport Ireland (details supplied). [2059/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraThursday, 14 January 2021
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Freagraí scríofa
Sport Ireland is a State agency and all appointments to its board are made in accordance with the Government’s guidelines on appointments to State boards. Under the guidelines, the Public Appointments Service (PAS) is responsible for the process to select suitable candidates for consideration by the Minister for appointment to the board.
PAS will shortly be advertising a process for selection of candidates to fill three existing vacancies on the board of Sport Ireland. Any person who might wish to be informed of the upcoming selection process by PAS should register their interest on the State Boards website www.stateboards.ie.
The Deputy may be interested to know that on 16th October 2020, Minister of State Jack Chambers and I announced the appointment of two new members to the board of Sport Ireland, including the appointment of Mr Iognáid Ó Muircheartaigh, who was the chairman of the Golfing Union of Ireland prior to the formation of Golf Ireland in 2019 as the new governing body for golf. These appointments followed from a PAS process which was completed in 2020.