State Bodies: paid and unpaid board members by
Government Department.
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Source: PQ 49957/13 answered by Minister Coveney on 20 November 2014
The details of the fees paid to Board members of the twelve State Bodies operating under
the aegis of my Department for 2012 are outlined in the following table:
Body/Agency
No of Board
Members
Chair: €8,978
3 years
Board member:
€5,985
Chair: €20,520
3 years
Board member:
€11,970
Chair €11,970
3 years
Board Member
€7,695
Chair: €21,600
9
5 years
Board member:
€12,600
Chair: €21,600
14
As long as he shall Board member:
remain CEO of
€12,600
Coillte or 5 years
whichever is the
shorter
4 years
Chair: €21,600
7
An Bord Bia
15*
Bord na gCon
Coillte
Horse Racing
Ireland
Irish National Stud
Marine Institute
National Milk
Agency
Board Fees per
Annum
2 – 5 years
Aquaculture
Licensing Appeals
Board
Bord Iascaigh
Mhara
Term of Office
6
7
7
9
14 including Chair
Not a fixed term
appointment
5 years
3 years for elected
members
Board member:
€12,600
Chair: €12,600
Ordinary member:
€8,100
Chair: €11,970
Board Member:
€7,695
Chair: €8,978
No remuneration is
Sea Fisheries
3
Protection Authority
5 years
Teagasc
5 years
Veterinary Council
11*
19
4 years
paid to Board
members, only
expenses.
Authority is
comprised of 3
staff. No additional
remuneration paid
to Authority
members.
Chair: €20,520
Board member:
€11,970
No remuneration is
paid to Board
members
* Board members of State Bodies who are officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food
and the Marine do not receive board fees.
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Source: Helen Francis, Press and Information Office, Department of Arts, Heritage and the
Gaeltacht
Body/Agency
National Gallery of Ireland
National Concert Hall
National Library of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Irish Film Board
Arts Council
Heritage Council
Applicable Fees
€8,978 (Chair)
€5,985 (Ordinary member)
All members including the Chair have waived
fees.
No fees applicable.
€8,978 (Chair)
€5,985 (Ordinary member)
All members including the Chairs have
waived fees.
€8,978 (Chair)
€5,985 (Ordinary member)
All members including the Chairs have
waived fees.
€8,978 (Chair) – Fee has been waived.
No fees applicable for ordinary members.
No fees applicable.
€8,978 (Chair)
€5,985 (Ordinary Board Members) – one
ordinary member has waived their fee.
€8,978 (Chair)
€5,985 (Ordinary member)
One board member has waived their fee.
4 board members, including the Chair, do not
National Archives Advisory Council
Censorship of Publications Board
Crawford Art Gallery
Chester Beatty Library
Irish Manuscripts Commission
receive fees as they are in receipt of public
sector salaries or pensions under the one
salary rule.
No fees applicable.
No fees applicable.
No fees applicable.
No fees applicable.
Chair (€10,500) – Fee has been waived.
No fees applicable for ordinary board
members.
Údarás na Gaeltachta
Chairman (€20,520) - No fee payable as
Chairman is a public servant (one salary rule
applies)
€11,970 (ordinary members)
Foras na Gaeilge
Ulster-Scots Agency
4 board members do not receive a fee under
the one person one salary rule.
Chair - €11,970/£8,140
Vice Chair - €9,830/£6,690
Ordinary Board Members - €7,695/£5,235
1 member has waived their fee and 3
members do not receive fees under the one
salary principle.
Chair - €11,970/£8,140
Vice Chair - €9,830/£6,690
Ordinary Board Members - €7,695/£5,235
1 member does not receive fees under the
one salary principle.
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Adoption Authority of Ireland
Board Member
Dr. Geoffrey Shannon (Chair)
Other Board members
Dr. Imelda Ryan
Annual Remuneration
€63,120
€7,965
Does not receive fee
Family Support Agency
Board Member
Chair
Other Board members
Annual remuneration
€8,978
€5,985
Children Detention Schools: no fees paid
National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB): no fees paid
Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO): No board
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Source: Claire Collins, Press Officer, Department of Communications, Energy &
Natural Resources
Please find below a list of the Bodies under the aegis of the Department, along with details
of their classification and position in relation to remuneration for membership of the Board.:
Category and Rates of Fees for Board Members of Bodies Under the Aegis of DCENR
where applicable
Commercial Bodies
Body
Classification
Category
An Post
Commercial
Category 1
Ervia
Commercial
Category 1
Bord na Móna
Commercial
Category 2
EirGrid
Commercial
Category 2
Electricity Supply Board
Commercial
Category 1
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Commercial
Category 1
Teilifís na Gaeilge
Commercial
Category 2
Rates of fees w.e.f
01.05.2009
Chair: €31,500
Director: €15,750
Chair: €31,500
Director: €15,750
Chair: €21,600
Director: €12,600
Chair: €21,600
Director: €12,600
Chair: €31,500
Director: €15,750
Chair: €31,500
Director: €15,750
Chair: €21,600
Director: €12,600
Non-Commercial Bodies/Regulators
Body
Classification
Category
Broadcasting Authority
of Ireland
Commission for
Communications
Regulation
Regulatory
Category 4
Regulatory
n/a - 3
Commissioners
appointed.
Rates of fees w.e.f
01.01.2010
Chair: €8,978
Director: €5,985
n/a
Commission for Energy
Regulation
Regulatory
Digital Hub
Development Agency
Inland Fisheries Ireland
Non-Commercial
n/a - 3
Commissioners
appointed.
Category 3
Non-Commercial
Category 3
*Loughs Agency
North-South Body
n/a
Chair: €11,970
Director: €7,695
Chair: €11,970
Director: €7,695
Board fees being
paid to members
from July 2012
Chair:€11,970
Vice Chair Stg
£6,690
5 Board members –
Stg £5,235
The Mining Board
Non-Commercial
Fees per day/sitting
National Oil Reserves
Agency
Ordnance Survey
Ireland
Sustainable Energy
Authority of Ireland
Irish National
Petroleum Corporation
Non-Commercial
Category 4
Non-Commercial
Category 3
Non-Commercial
Category 3
Non-Commercial
Technical Board
5 Board members –
€7,695
€582.97 fee per day
for public and private
sittings.
€200.93 fee per full
day for any
necessary
attendance (other
than sittings) in
discharge of the
Board’s business.
Chair: €8,978
Director: €5,985
Chair: €11,970
Director: €7,695
Chair: €11,970
Director: €7,695
Chair: €1,200
Director: €900
The One Person One Salary policy introduced by the Department of Public Expenditure and
Reform provides that serving public sector employees are not eligible to receive
remuneration in relation to their membership of boards of State Bodies. Non-public sector
board members may choose to voluntarily waive their fees as a matter of personal choice.
Both of these policy initiatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have
been brought to the attention of the bodies under the aegis of the
Department. Consequently, the remuneration details in the table above refer to fees that
may be payable and are not indicative of fees actually being received by board
members. The payment of board members’ expenses is an operational matter for each
State Body.
*The Irish Exchequer pays half of the cost of Loughs Agency board fees.
Department of Defence
Source: PQ 49951/13 answered by Minister Shatter on 20 November 2013
“The only body remaining under the aegis of my Department is the Army Pensions Board,
which is an independent statutory body, established under the Army Pensions Act, 1927.
The Act specifies that the Board shall consist of a chairman and two ordinary members. The
two ordinary members must be qualified medical practitioners of whom one must be an
officer of the Army Medical Corps. The chairman and the non-military ordinary member are
appointed by the Minister for Defence with the concurrence of the Minister for Public
Expenditure and Reform. The Army Medical Corps ordinary member is appointed by the
Minister for Defence on the recommendation of the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces.
Annual fees for the chairperson and the civilian doctor are €7,618 and €5,079 respectively”
Department of Education and Skills
Source: Department of Education and Skills website http://www.education.ie/en/TheDepartment/Agencies/Details-of-Membership-of-State-Boards/
Board Fees as at 14th November, 2013
Body
Chairperson Rate
An Chomhairle um Oideachas
n/a
Gaeltachta agus
Gaelscolaíochta (COGG)
An tSeirbhís Oideachais
n/a
Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna
(SOLAS)
See Note 2
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA)
Grangegorman Development
€8,978
Agency
Higher Education Authority
€11,970
(HEA)
Irish Research Council
n/a
Léargas
n/a
National Centre for Guidance
n/a
Education (NCGE) Management
Committee
National Council for Curriculum
n/a
and Assessment (NCCA)
National Council for Special
n/a
Members Rate[Note 1]
n/a
n/a
n/a
€7,695
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Education
Quality and Qualifications
n/a
n/a
Ireland (QQI)
Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB)
Residential Institutions Review Committee (RIRC)
Residential Institutions Statutory n/a
n/a
fund (RISF)
Skillnets Ltd
€8,978
€5,985
State Examinations Commission n/a
n/a
The Teaching Council
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not Applicable
Note 2: The Chairperson of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse (CICA) is a member of the
Judiciary and is not paid by the CICA. The ordinary members of the Commission, who were all salaried
are not currently on the payroll.
Note 3: The Chairman of the RIRB is paid an annual salary equivalent to a serving President of the
Circuit Court subject to abatement to take account of his pension. In relation to the RIRC, the
Chairman's salary is linked to his former Supreme Court judicial salary subject to pension abatement.
Since October 2011, the Chairman has taken a 50% voluntary reduction in his salary. The other board
members of both the RIRB and the RIRC are paid a per diem rate and pension abatement applies in
the case of members receiving a pension from the State. The per diem rate from 1st January 2011 is
€668.
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Source: PQ 49953/13 answered by Minister Hogan on 20 November 2013
Agency
Dublin Docklands
Development
Authority
Housing Finance
Agency
Irish Water Safety
Housing &
Sustainable
Communities Agency
Local Government
Management Agency
Private Residential
Tenancies Board /
Post
Chairperson
Number
1
Fees/ Remuneration
€20,520
Member
Chairperson
7
1
€11,970
€11,970
Member
Chairperson
Member
Chairperson
10
1
12
1
€7,695
€8,978
Nil
€11,970
Member
Chairperson
5
1
€7,695
Nil
Member
Chairperson
10
1
Nil
*
Rent Tribunal
Radiological
Protection Institute of
Ireland (RPII)
Western Development
Commission
An Bord Pleanála **
-
Member
Chairperson
9
1
*
€11,970
Member
Chairperson
10
1
€7,695
€ 8,978
Member
Chairperson
-
10
1
-
-
Deputy Chair
-
1
-
-
Member
-
8
-
Environmental
Protection Agency **
-
Director General
1
€ 5,985
PPC Rate: €175,877
Non PCC Rate:
€167,300
PPC Rate: €124,716
Non PCC Rate:
€118,581
PPC Rate: €109,580
Non PCC Rate:
€104,317
PPC Rate: €153,162
1
Non PPC: €145,679
PPC Rate: €130,881
-
Deputy Director
General
-
-
-
Directors
-
3
-
Non-PPC Rate:
€125,011
PPC Rate: €119,381
Non-PPC Rate:
€113,511
* Those PRTB/Rent Tribunal members of the Board who are entitled to Board fees are paid
such fees on an attendance basis only. Details regarding the scale of fees and the amounts
paid are published in the annual reports of the PRTB.
** The Boards of An Bord Pleanála and the Environmental Protection Agency are executive
in nature, and Board members are full-time, salaried positions.
Department of Finance
Source: PQ 49363/13 answered by Minister Noonan on 20 November 2013
Name of Board
National Treasury
Management
Agency (NTMA)
Advisory
Committee
No Of Board Members and Total Remuneration paid to members.
5 to 7 Members
In 2012 a total of €135,000 was paid to board members.
State Claims Policy
Committee
7 Members
In 2012 a total of €42,915 was paid to board members.
National Pensions
7 Members
Reserve Fund
(NPRF) Commission In 2012 a total of €222,839 was paid to board members.
The National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission remuneration is
met from the National Pensions Reserve Fund.
National
Development
Finance Agency
(NDFA) Board
8 Members
National Asset
Management
Agency Board
9 Board Members
In 2012 a total of €222,839 was paid to board members.
In 2012 a total of €475,000 was paid to board members.
The National Asset Management Agency costs, including
remuneration paid to the NAMA board, are met from its operating
income.
Credit Union
13 (including Chairperson)
Restructuring Board
(ReBo)
€11,970 p.a for Chairperson
€7,695 p.a for other board members, with the exception of the Dept.
Of Finance and Central Bank representatives who don’t receive a fee.
Credit Union
7 (1 Chairman and 6 ordinary members).
Advisory Committee
Annual allowance of €3,705 for Chairman and €2,470 for ordinary
member.
Irish Fiscal Advisory 5 Council Members
Council
With effect from 1 July 2012, the fees payable to Council Members are
based on those payable to Directors of Category 2 Non-Commercial
State-Sponsored Bodies, which are set from time to time by the Dept.
of Public Expenditure and Reform. The relevant fees are €20,520 for
the Chair and €11,970 for Members. The fees are not payable to
members of the Irish public service.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Source: PQ No. 49954/13 answered by Minister Gilmore on 20 November 2015
No state boards under the aegis of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Department of Health
Source: Derek Noonan, Department of Health, Room 9.32, Hawkins House, Dublin 2
With regard to board fees, there are four categories payable to chairpersons and directors of
Non-Commercial State Agencies. The “one person one salary” principle provides that public
servants acting as chairpersons or directors of state-sponsored bodies do not receive
additional remuneration for undertaking such duties. Members of Boards are entitled to
claim travel and subsistence as governed by the Travel and Subsistence Circulars issued by
the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Instead of the fees mentioned above,
members of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal are paid a briefing fee of
€10,000 when they take up their appointment and a daily rate of €845.00.
The approved annual rates in respect of those Boards to which I have made appointments
and where board fees are payable are:
Category
1
2
3
4
Chair
€29,888
€20,520
€11,970
€8,978
Director
€14,963
€11,970
€7,695
€5,985
The applicable categories for the bodies under the aegis of the Department of Health are as
follows.
Category 1 Boards
Category 2 Boards
HIQA, VHI, Irish Medicines Board (Chair Only)
Category 3 Boards
Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board, Pharmaceutical
Society of Ireland, National Treatment Purchase Fund, The Nursing and Midwifery Board of
Ireland, National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Health Research Board, Medical
Council, Mental Health Commission.
Category 4 Boards
Health & Social Care Professionals Council (Chair only), Health Insurance Authority.
The following Boards do not pay fees
Beaumont Hospital Board.
Consultative Council on Hepatitis C.
Dental Council.
Dublin Dental Hospital Board.
Leopardstown Park Hospital Board.
National Haemophilia Council.
Opticians Board.
Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council.
St James’s Hospital Board.
Social Workers Registration Board.
Tallaght Hospital Board.
National Cancer Registry Board
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
n/a
Department of Justice and Equality
n/a
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Source: Neil McDonough, Press Office, Department of Public Expenditure and
Reform,
Details extracted from PQ 45809/12 answered by Minister Howlin on 23 October 2012
State Board
Name of Member
Fees Paid
Civil Service
Arbitration
Board
John Doherty, Chairperson
590 per sitting
Gerard Barry
416 per sitting
Tom Wall
416 per sitting
George Maybury
416 per sitting
Hugh O’Flaherty
416 per sitting
Donal Connell, Chairperson
No, on the basis that
he is also a member
of the board of An
Post
Peter Quinn
No, on the basis that
he is also a member
of the board of An
Post
Eddie Sullivan, Chairman
€11,970 p.a.
National
Lottery Board
Public
Appointments
Services
Expenses Paid
Des Dowling, Assistant Secretary –
Dept of Environment, Community &
Local Government
Dr. Deirdre O’Keeffe, Assistant
Secretary – Dept of Justice &
Equality
Patricia Coleman, Director – Dept of
Public Expenditure & Reform
Seán McGrath – National Director
of HR in the HSE (has since
resigned)
Judith Eve – former Chairperson of
the Civil Service Commissioners,
Northern Ireland
€7,695 p.a.
Dr. Eddie Molloy – Management
Consultant
€7,695 p.a.
Dan Murphy – former General
Secretary of the PSEU
€7,695 p.a.
Bryan Andrews as CEO of the PAS
holding office on an ex officio basis
(replaced by)
Fiona Tierney, CEO, PAS in March
2012
Details extracted from PQ 34465/13 & 34518/13 answered by Minister Howlin on 16
July 2013
State Board
Name of Member
Fees Paid
Expenses Paid
Civil Service
Arbitration
Board - Civil
Service,
Defence
Forces,
Gardaí &
Teachers
Arbitration
Boards
John Doherty, Chairperson
€552 per day wef 1
July 2013
Nil
National
Lottery Board
Public
Appointments
Service
Gerard Barry
€392 per day wef
1July 2013
Nil
Tom Wall
€4,346 per annum
wef 1 July 2013, for
11 sitting days
Nil
George Maybury
€392 per annum wef
1 July 2013
Nil
Hugh Flaherty
€392 per annum wef
1 July 2013
Nil
Brendan Duffy, Adjudicator
€295 wef 1 July 2013
Nil
Donal Connell
Nil
Nil
Dermot Griffin
€11,000
€6,911
Micheál Ó’ Muircheartaigh
€12,600
Nil
Oliver Wilkinson
€12,600
Nil
Caroline Murphy
€12,600
Nil
Peter Quinn
Nil
Nil
James Hyland
Nil
€3,165
Eddie Sullivan, Chairman
€11,970
Nil
Des Dowling, Assistant Secretary –
Dept of Environment, Community &
Local Government
Nil
Nil
Dr. Deirdre O’Keeffe, Assistant
Secretary – Dept of Justice &
Equality
Nil
Nil
Patricia Coleman, Director – Dept of
Public Expenditure & Reform
(resigning from Board)
Nil
Nil
Seán McGrath – National Director
of HR in the HSE (resigned and
replaced by)
Nil
Nil
Barry O’Brien – National Director of
HR in the HSE in September 2012
Nil
Nil
Judith Eve – former Chairperson of
the Civil Service Commissioners,
Northern Ireland
€7,695
€286.99
Dr. Eddie Molloy – Management
Consultant
€7,695
Nil
Dan Murphy – former General
Secretary of the PSEU
€7,695
Nil
Bryan Andrews as CEO of the PAS
held office on an ex officio basis
Not paid as Board
members – part of
CEO role
Nil
(in respect of
travel from
Belfast for Board
meetings)
(replaced by)
Fiona Tierney, CEO, PAS in March
2012
Nil
Outside
Appointments
Board
Robert Watt – Secretary General
Dept of Public Expenditure &
Reform
Nil
Nil
Martin Frazer – Secretary General
Dept of An Taoiseach
Nil
Nil
Breege O’Donoghue
Nil
Nil
Peter Malone
Nil
Nil
Department of Social Protection
Source: PQ 49958/13 answered by Minister Burton on 20 November 2013
Minister for Social Protection (Deputy Joan Burton): The statutory bodies operating
under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Citizens Information Board,
the Pensions Board, the Pensions Ombudsman (which does not have a board) and the
Social Welfare Tribunal. No new State Agency or Quango has been created or abolished
since the formation of the Government. Details of the numbers of directors sitting on each
board (including chairpersons) and the aggregate fees paid are set out in the table below.
Agency/ Board
Year
Number of
Directors per year
(to include the
Chairperson)
Citizens Information 2011 ( from March) 15
Board
2012
Pensions Board*
Social Welfare
Tribunal **
Total cost
€
85,049
13
66,550
2013 (to 31
13
October)
2011 ( from March) 15
34,527
2012
15
90,203
2013 (to 31
October)
2011(from March)
15
74,100
1
Nil
2012
1
Nil
2013 (to 31
October)
1
Nil
86,284
* The operations of the Pensions Board, including payment of fees to the board members,
are largely financed by annual fees payable to it by occupational pension schemes and by
providers of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts and trust Retirement Annuity Contracts.
Department of the Taoiseach
The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO): No board of Directors
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Source: Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport website
http://www.dttas.ie/sites/default/files/publications/corporate/english/board-fees/boardfees.pdf