21. (1) The Agency shall appoint such and so many persons to be members of the staff of the Agency as it may from time to time determine.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), the terms and conditions of service of a member of staff of the Agency shall be such as may be determined from time to time by the Agency.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), there shall be paid by the Agency to the members of its staff such remuneration and allowances as may be determined from time to time by the Agency.

(4) In determining the terms and conditions of service of members of its staff and the remuneration or allowances to be paid to members of its staff, the Agency shall have regard to Government or nationally agreed guidelines which are for the time being extant or to Government policy concerning conditions of employment and remuneration and, in addition to the foregoing, the Agency shall comply with any direction with regard to such terms or conditions, remuneration or allowances which the Minister may give from time to time to the Agency with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

(5) As soon as may be after the commencement of this section, the Agency shall prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of persons appointed under subsection (1) and persons who were accepted into the employment of the Agency in accordance with section 37 and the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, approve the scheme or schemes.

(6) Every such scheme shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to, or in respect of whom, superannuation benefits are payable under the scheme, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons.

(7) The Agency may at any time prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending or revoking a scheme previously submitted and approved under this section and the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, approve the scheme.

(8) A scheme or amending scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, be carried out by the Agency in accordance with its terms.

(9) (a) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any superannuation benefit pursuant to a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to such person and determined in the manner as may be specified in the scheme.

(b) A scheme under this section shall make provision for an appeal from a determination of a person referred to in paragraph (a) to any other person as may be specified in the scheme.

(10) A superannuation benefit shall not be granted by the Agency to or in respect of any persons who are members of a scheme under this section and no other arrangement shall be entered into for the provision of any superannuation benefit to such persons on their ceasing to hold office, other than in accordance with a scheme submitted and approved under this section or an arrangement approved by the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

(11) This section is subject to Part 5.