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The Council
Chairperson
Martin Fraser – Department of the Taoiseach
Elizabeth Canavan, Deputy Chair: – Department of the Taoiseach
Business & Employers
Maeve McElwee – IBEC
Ian Talbot – Chambers Ireland
Tom Parlon – Construction Industry Federation
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Patricia King – ICTU
Joe Cunningham – SIPTU
Farming & Agriculture
Damian McDonald – IFA
Denis Duggan – Macra na Feirme
John Enright – Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association
Community & Voluntary
Seán Healy – Social Justice Ireland
Bríd O’Brien – INOU
James Doorley – National Youth Council of Ireland
Environment
Michael Ewing – The Environmental Pillar
Kate Ruddock – Friends of the Earth
Oonagh Duggan – Birdwatch Ireland
Public Service
Derek Moran – Department of Finance
Robert Watt – Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Orlaigh Quinn – Department of Jobs, Enterprise, & Innovation
John McCarthy – Department of Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government
Independent Nominees
Prof Edgar Morgenroth – Dublin City University (DCU)
Dr Michelle Norris – UCD Geary Institute
Prof Eleanor Denny – Trinity College Dublin
Prof Paul Donnelly – Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)
Prof Geraint Ellis – Queens University, Belfast
Dr Sinead O’Flanagan – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Philip Hamell
