Written answers
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Ministerial Appointments
Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list all the current positions, where the appointment was made by his Department held by retired senior civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42673/12]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I appointed Mr Sean Benton, a former Chairman of the Office of Public Works, as Chairman of the National Sports Campus Development Authority. The Government, on my recommendation, appointed Mr Kevin Bonner, a former Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise and Employment, as Chairman of Dublin Bus and member of the CIE Board.
Both of these appointments are to non-executive roles and do not command a salary. Board fees are paid. Apart from these appointments, neither I nor the Ministers of State at my Department have appointed any retired senior civil servant to a position within my Department or any agency or State board under my aegis.
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