Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1999

Staff of an tÚdarás.

10.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 12:

“12.—(1) An tÚdarás shall, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance—

(a) appoint such and so many persons to be members of the staff of an tÚdarás (other than the Chief Executive) as it may from time to time determine, and

(b) determine the grades of such staff of an tÚdarás as aforesaid and the number of staff in each grade.

(2) The terms and conditions of service, including terms and conditions relating to remuneration, and allowances for expenses, (which shall be paid by an tÚdarás out of moneys at its disposal), of the members of the staff of an tÚdarás shall be such as an tÚdarás may from time to time, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance, determine.

(3) An tÚdarás shall, in determining the remuneration or allowances for expenses to be paid to the members of its staff or the other terms or conditions subject to which the members of its staff hold or are to hold their employment, have regard 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.

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

(5) Subject to subsection (2), a person who immediately before the commencement of section 10 of the Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1999, was a member of the staff of an tÚdarás shall on and after such commencement continue to hold his or her employment with an tÚdarás on the terms and conditions of service on which he or she held it before such commencement.”.