18 Noll 2012, 14:04
The Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will start off its meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, 19th December with scrutiny of EU legislative proposal COM92012)614 on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of listed companies.
Deputy Stanton said: “The purpose of the proposal is to substantially increase the number of women on corporate boards throughout the EU by setting a minimum objective of a 40% presence of the underrepresented sex among the non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and by requiring companies with fewer women among the nonexecutive directors to introduce pre-established, clear, neutrally formulated and unambiguous criteria in selection procedures for those positions to reach the objective of 40%.”
This meeting will start in Committee Room 2, Leinster House at 9.30am on Wednesday 19th December.
Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o
For further information please contact:
Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
P: +3531 618 3903
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Committee Membership
Deputies:
Niall Collins, Michael Creed, Alan Farrell, Anne Ferris [Vice-Chairman], Seán Kenny, Finian McGrath, Jonathan O’Brien, John Paul Phelan and David Stanton (Chairman).
Senators:
Ivana Bacik, Paul Bradford, Martin Conway, Rónán Mullen, Denis O’Donovan and Katherine Zappone.