Údarás na Gaeltachta Act, 1979

Staff of an tÚdarás.

12.—(1) An tÚdarás shall appoint such and so many persons to be the staff of an tÚdarás as an tÚdarás from time to time thinks proper.

(2) A member of the staff of an tÚdarás shall hold his employment on such terms and conditions as an tÚdarás from time to time determines.

(3) There shall be paid by an tÚdarás to the members of its staff such remuneration and allowances for expenses as an tÚdarás thinks fit subject to, in the case of its chief officer (whether that officer is described as the Chief Officer or otherwise), the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service.

(4) In determining the remuneration or allowances for expenses to be paid to the members of its staff or the terms or conditions subject to which the members of its staff hold or are to hold their employment, an tÚdarás shall have regard either to Government or nationally-agreed guidelines for the time being extant, or to Government policy concerning remuneration and conditions of employment which is so extant, and shall comply with any directive with regard to such remuneration, allowances, terms or conditions which the Minister may give from time to time to an tÚdarás with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service.

(5) An tÚdarás may at any time remove any member of the staff of an tÚdarás from being a member of its staff.

(6) A person who immediately before the appointed day was an officer or servant of Gaeltarra Éireann shall on the appointed day become and be a member of the staff of an tÚdarás in such position as is, in the opinion of an tÚdarás, similar to the position under Gaeltarra Éireann held by that person immediately before the appointed day and on such terms and conditions as an tÚdarás may from time to time determine and are not, in the opinion of an tÚdarás, less favourable to that person than those that applied in relation to his employment with Gaeltarra Éireann immediately before the appointed day.