Commission To Inquire Into Child Abuse Act, 2000

Staff of Commission.

9.—(1) The Commission may, with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Finance, appoint such and so many persons as the Commission may determine to be members of the staff of the Commission.

(2) The Minister may, with the consent of the Commission and the Minister for Finance, second to the Commission such and so many of his or her officers as he or she may determine and the Minister for Health and Children may, with the like consents, second to the Commission such and so many of his or her officers as he or she may determine, and a person so seconded shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be, during the period of the secondment, a member of the staff of the Commission.

(3) A person appointed or seconded under this section to a position shall hold the position upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister, or the Minister for Health and Children (if the person was seconded by him or her) may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, determine, being, in the case of a person so seconded, terms and conditions not less favourable to the person than those applicable to him or her as an officer of the Minister or the Minister for Health and Children, as the case may be.