Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

4:30 pm

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I will start with the second question and come back to the first. We have a significant shared services programme, upgrading and development of shared services, which I mentioned in my opening statement. That includes shared payroll services for the education and training board, ETB, sector, which would cut across two Departments and the higher education sector. It also includes the upgrading of the shared service that we operate for the schools. Until the single shared service was put in place for the Civil Service, the school sector had the largest payroll in the State. We are on the way to implementing the shared payroll for the ETBs. I will come back to the Deputy with an exact figure if necessary, but I believe we have seven ETBs over the line with the shared service payroll and we are working through to completing this for the full 16. I think we have two pilot higher education institutions - one just over the line and one coming over the line, and we have a third pilot. We also have a major upgrade programme for the payroll for schools. The plan is to move to a modern payroll service for schools.

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