Ms Bernie McNally:

We can give the Deputy an update. There is some positivity there. On several occasions, the committee has raised the fact the Department was still using paper payslips. That was because we were introducing a new IT payroll system that there had been problems with. We went out to tender and that tender failed. There was not sufficient interest and those that came forward did not meet the quality standards.

The good news is that we are availing of the Government's digital postbox and some 33,000 teachers and SNAs have signed up to receive payslips digitally. That was only introduced last year and we are seeing a couple of thousand teachers, SNAs and so on signing up every month for that. We will be continuing to promote it and there is a promotion campaign to encourage more teachers to do that. When we have the new scheme, that will be-----