She will take up the post for the next five years.
The appointment is subject to the Chairperson-designate appearing before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications.
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Ms. O'Donnell currently provides consultancy, lecturing and advisory services for corporate, educational and various other organisations in the field of government relations and public affairs and is an opinion columnist in the Irish Independent newspaper. She is also a former politician having been first elected to the Dáil in 1992 where she served as TD for Dublin South from 1992 to 2007. She served as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1997 -2002.
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