Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

SCHEDULE 3

Terms and Conditions of Civilian Staff Who Become Garda Staff

Section 54 (8)

1. Except in accordance with a collective agreement negotiated with any recognised trade union or staff association concerned, a person who under section 54 (5) becomes a member of garda staff shall not, while in the service of An Garda Síochána, receive a lesser scale of pay or be made subject to less beneficial terms and conditions of service than the scale of pay to which he or she was entitled and the terms and conditions of service to which he or she was subject immediately before he or she became a member of garda staff.

2. Until such time as the scale of pay and the terms and conditions of service of a person who became a member of garda staff are varied by the Garda Commissioner with the agreement of the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, having consulted with any recognised trade union or staff association concerned, the scale of pay to which he or she was entitled and the terms and conditions of service, restrictions, requirements and obligations to which he or she was subject immediately before the person became a member of garda staff shall continue to apply to him or her and may be applied or imposed by the Garda Commissioner while he or she is a member of garda staff and no such variation shall operate to worsen that scale of pay or those terms or conditions of service applicable to such person immediately before the person became a member of garda staff, except in accordance with a collective agreement negotiated with any recognised trade union or staff association concerned.