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

Kevin Callinan – Fórsa

Patricia King – ICTU

Joe Cunningham – SIPTU

Farming & Agriculture

John Enright – Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA)

Denis Duggan – Macra na Feirme

TJ Flanagan – ICOS

Community & Voluntary

Seán Healy – Social Justice Ireland

Bríd O’Brien – INOU

James Doorley – National Youth Council of Ireland

Environment

Karen Ciesielski – The Environmental Pillar

Caroline Whyte – Feasta

Oonagh Duggan – Birdwatch Ireland

Public Service

John Hogan – Department of Finance

David Moloney – (Acting Secretary General) Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Orlaigh Quinn – Department of Business Enterprise and Innovation

Graham Doyle – Department of Housing, Planning and 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 – Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)

Prof Geraint Ellis – Queens University, Belfast

Dr Sinead O’Flanagan – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Philip Hamell