What happened to the state boards published skill matrix

re state boards, what happened to the published skill matrix?

National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Crawford Art Gallery: Summary of Reform Proposals 2012

Appointments by the Minister to the boards to draw on an independent assessment process, based on a published skills matrix to be drawn up by the Minister and managed through the Public Appointments Service.

Governance of Cultural Institutions 26 March 2013

Speech by Minister Jimmy Deenihan
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

To ensure that appointments by the Minister of the day to these boards will have regard to an independent assessment process, based on a skills matrix to be drawn up by the Minister and managed through the Public Appointments Service;

Report of the Joint Committee on the general scheme of the national cultural institutions (National Concert Hall) bill 2014

7.17 Head 17 – Board of the Hall

(2) All appointments by the Minister shall have regard to an independent assessment process, based on a published skills matrix to be drawn up by the Minister, and managed by the Public Appointments Service.

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2014: Discussion

Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú: (assistant secretary)
Head 17(2) states that all appointments by the Minister shall have regard to an independent assessment process based on a published skills matrix to be drawn up by the Minister and managed by the Public Appointments Service.

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Act 2015

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015 Enacted as 10/12/2015

Board of NCH
10. (1) The NCH shall have a Board consisting of a chairperson and 8 ordinary members
appointed by the Minister.
(2) (a) The chairperson and ordinary members of the Board shall be appointed by the
Minister, from among persons who, in the Minister’s opinion, have experience of,
and expertise in matters connected to music, dance, the arts, finance, business,
administration, marketing, fundraising, philanthropy, corporate governance,
human resources or venue management.
(b) When making an appointment under paragraph (a) the Minister shall consult the
chairperson of the Board in relation to the expertise that is required on the Board.
Board of NCH
10. (1) The NCH shall have a Board consisting of a chairperson and 8 ordinary members
appointed by the Minister.
(2) (a) The chairperson and ordinary members of the Board shall be appointed by the
Minister, from among persons who, in the Minister’s opinion, have experience of,
and expertise in matters connected to music, dance, the arts, finance, business,
administration, marketing, fundraising, philanthropy, corporate governance,
human resources or venue management.
(b) When making an appointment under paragraph (a) the Minister shall consult the
chairperson of the Board in relation to the expertise that is required on the Board.

What happened to the published skill matrix?

I asked the Minister/department this questionand replied that recent advertisements had skill profiles. Which you can see here

Irish_Museum_of_Modern_Art_Information_Booklet.pdf

National_Concert_Hall_Information_Booklet.pdf

National_Gallery_of_Ireland_Information_Booklet.pdf

Crawford_Gallery_Information_Booklet.pdf

Although these call for expression of interest advertise vacancies for most of the boards seats its not for all of them.

I didn't think listing the skills that are being sought for the vacancies being advertised is a skill matrix, a skill matrix is listing the skills requirements of the entire board, and showing where there may be skill gaps.

Irish Times and Patrick O'Donovan both make same false claim and the Irish Times refuses to correct.

Patrick O'Donovan is complaining that he hasn't been delegated any ministerial functions by Minister Ross in the Department of Transport Tourism and Sport and the Irish Times repeated his false claim about him being the only one.

Minister in state as Shane Ross fails to delegate functions - Irish Times Mar 11, 2017 by Sarah Bardon

Correspondence [dated 13th February 2017] released to The Irish Times under the Freedom of Information Act shows that Mr O’Donovan told Mr Ross the refusal to delegate functions is causing “confusion” within the department and asked for it to be urgently addressed, claiming he is the only Minister of State to be in this position.

His key claim seems to be wrong, he says that he is the only Minister of State not to have been delegated functions but afaik Eoghan Murphy has not been either, other wise it would appear here Irish Statute Book

Patrick O'Donovan's email actually said he understood he is the only one in this situation, he is allowing himself to be mistaken, but the Irish Times does not qualify when Sarah Bardon of the Irish Times earlier asserted the same false claim.

Ross drink-driving crackdown to be blocked by Fianna Fáil Feb 22, 2017, Sarah Bardon

Mr O’Donovan is the only Minister of State not to have delegated powers...

If the sentence isn't true it should be corrected. I complained to the readersrep and editor of the Irish Times and they tried to prevaricate by saying they were waiting for a reply from the Finance Department about what powers had been assigned to MOS Eoghan Murphy, but they didn't need to ask the Department of Finance just look for the Statutory Instruments, delegated powers has a specific meaning, it does not mean assignment of areas of responsibilities as suggested by Irish Times editor Eoin McVey in his reply to me, because Patrick O'Donovan has already been assigned areas of responsibilty see Dail Question 25 October 2016.

A spokeswoman for Mr Ross said... said there was no precedent in the department to delegate functions, pointing to a similar situation between former minister for transport Paschal Donohoe and minister of state Michael Ring.

This is correct, you can search all Statutory Instruments related to delegated of functions on the OPAC library.


Timeline

Eoghan Murphy refers to delegated responsibilites while he doesn't have any 22 June 2016

Dara Callery asks each Department about MOS' delegated responsibilties25 October 2016

Out in the cold:  The six powerless junior ministers Kevin Doyle Independent.ie November 1 2016. It says "6 powerless junior ministers" Im not sure who it is referring to, Ring and Kyne(1)(2) got delegated functions in June, July 2016 months before the article was published although it doesn't specifically say they were powerless.
Patrick O'Donovan, Eoghan Murphy and Joe McHugh were not given delegated functions under those departments in that Enda Kenny post 2016 general election cabinet.

Michael Martin asks Enda Kenny about MOs 15 November 2016

Transport Tourism and Sport Committee where delegation of functions was discussed 1st February 2017.

FOI'd copies of emails 3rd and 13th of February from Patrick O'Donovan to the Minister


PQ Ministerial Functions 22 March 2017. 14 February 2017