Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 46:

In page 18, lines 1 to 14, to delete subsections (1) and (2) and substitute the following:“(1) Save in accordance with any collective agreement negotiated with a recognised trade union or staff association, An tSeirbhís shall accept into its employment on the establishment day each person who immediately before that day was a member of the staff of the dissolved body on such terms and conditions of service relating to remuneration as are not less beneficial than the terms and conditions of service relating to remuneration to which the person was subject immediately before that day.
(2) The terms and conditions to which a person is subject upon his or her becoming a member of the staff of An tSeirbhís in accordance with subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been determined by An tSeirbhís in accordance with subsection (2) of section 27.”.

The purpose of this amendment is to amend the wording of subjection (2) of section 28. The section deals with the terms and conditions of service relating to remuneration that will apply to former FÁS staff who transfer to SOLAS. Again, it is a standard technical provision that is implemented on the transfer of staff from one public sector body to another public sector body. Essentially, it provides that FÁS staff will retain the same terms and conditions in regard to remuneration on transfer to SOLAS.