I move amendment No. 8:

In page 7, subsection (7), lines 18 and 19, to delete " on secondment from the civil service ".

This is a drafting amendment. A civil servant on secondment from the civil service remains a civil servant and he would continue to be pensionable under the Superannuation Acts. Accordingly, it is not necessary to make any provision in the Bill for a seconded civil servant who may be appointed a commissioner. If however a civil servant is appointed a commissioner otherwise than on secondment then he should get the terms as other commissioners. Subsection (1) as amended would permit this to be done.

Does it mean that if a civil servant is made a commissioner he remains a civil servant?

You could have two situations. Where a civil servant is made a commissioner on secondment, he remains a civil servant and he has the benefit of his old superannuation scheme. If he ceases to be a civil servant and leaves the civil service and becomes a commissioner we are making provision in the subsection for that.

That he will get a pension?

That he can avail of the superannuation scheme.