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Officers of Police Ombudsman
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176. (1) The Police Ombudsman may, with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, appoint such and so many persons as officers of the Police Ombudsman (in this Act referred to as an “officer of the Police Ombudsman”) as the Police Ombudsman may determine.
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(2) The terms and conditions of service of an officer of the Police Ombudsman, and the grade at which he or she serves, shall be such as may be determined from time to time by the Police Ombudsman with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.
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(3) An officer of the Police Ombudsman shall be a civil servant in the Civil Service of the State.
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(4) The Police Ombudsman shall be the appropriate authority (within the meaning of the Act of 2004 and the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005) in relation to officers of the Police Ombudsman.
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(5) Any person who, immediately before the coming into operation of this section, was appointed under section 71 of the Act of 2005 as an officer of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission shall, on and after such coming into operation, be deemed to have been appointed under subsection (1) on such terms and conditions of service (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration and allowances) as are not less favourable than the terms and conditions of service (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration and allowances) to which the person was subject immediately before such coming into operation.
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