Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act, 1998

Staff of Agency and subsidiaries of Agency.

18.—(1) The Agency may appoint such and such number of persons to be members of the staff of the Agency as it may determine, with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Finance.

(2) A subsidiary may appoint such and such number of persons to be members of the staff of the subsidiary as it may determine with the consent of the Agency, the Minister and the Minister for Finance.

(3) The grades of the staff of the Agency or a subsidiary and the numbers of staff in each grade and the appropriate level of remuneration for each grade shall be determined by the Board or the board of the subsidiary, as the case may be, with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Finance.

(4) Where a member of the staff of the Agency or the staff of a subsidiary—

(a) is nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann,

(b) is elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or a representative in the European Parliament, or

(c) is regarded, pursuant to section 19 of the European Parliament Elections Act, 1997 , as having been elected to the European Parliament to fill a vacancy,

he or she shall thereupon stand seconded from his or her employment with the Agency or subsidiary and shall not be paid by, or be entitled to receive from the Agency, remuneration or allowances in respect of the period commencing on such nomination or election, or when he or she is so regarded as having been elected (as the case may be), and ending when he or she ceases to be a member of that House or a representative in that Parliament.

(5) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein or who is a representative in the European Parliament shall, while he or she is so entitled or is such a representative, be disqualified from becoming a member of the staff of the Agency or a subsidiary.

(6) This section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.