922. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and to the limits of staffing numbers specified in its work programme under section 910, the Supervisory Authority may employ such persons as it thinks necessary.

(2) Subject to the prior approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, the Supervisory Authority shall determine the numbers and grades of its employees and the terms and conditions of their employment.

(3) The Supervisory Authority may from time to time engage the services of professional and other advisers.

(4) A person who was in the employment of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority immediately before the commencement of this section shall continue in the employment of the Supervisory Authority and such employment shall (subject to any determination for the time being that may be made under subsection (2) of a like kind as could, from time to time, have been made under section 17(2) of the Act of 2003) be on the same terms and conditions as applied to the person immediately before such commencement.