Credit Review Act 2026
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Staff of Service | ||
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15. (1) The Credit Reviewer may, subject to the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, appoint such and so many persons to be members of the staff of the Service as he or she may from time to time determine and may determine their duties. | ||
(2) Appointments under subsection (1) shall be subject to the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 . | ||
(3) The Service, subject to the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, shall determine— | ||
(a) the terms and conditions of employment (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration, allowances and expenses) of staff appointed under this section, and | ||
(b) the grades of such staff and the numbers of staff at each grade. | ||
(4) A member of staff of a public body may, with the consent of the Minister, the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, the public body concerned and the member of staff concerned, be seconded to be a member of staff of the Service for the duration of the secondment. | ||
(5) A civil servant may, with the consent of the Minister, the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, the appropriate authority concerned and the member of staff concerned, be seconded to be a member of staff of the Service for the duration of the secondment. | ||
(6) The members of staff (including members of staff seconded under subsection (4) or (5)) of the Service shall perform their functions under the direction and control of the Credit Reviewer. | ||
(7) In this section— | ||
“appropriate authority” and “civil servant” have the same meaning, respectively, as they have in the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 ; | ||
“public body” means— | ||
(a) a local authority, | ||
(b) a body established— | ||
(i) by or under an enactment other than the Act of 2014 or a former enactment relating to companies within the meaning of section 5 of that Act, or | ||
(ii) under the Act of 2014, | ||
in pursuance of powers conferred by or under another enactment, and financed wholly or partly by means of money provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government or the issue of shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government, | ||
(c) a body that is wholly or partly funded directly or indirectly out of money provided by the Oireachtas or from the Central Fund or the growing produce of that Fund, or | ||
(d) any subsidiary of, or company controlled (within the meaning of section 10 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ) by, a body to which paragraph (b) or (c) relates. |