Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 265: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost to his Department of implementing the payroll system within his Department and within bodies under his Department's aegis for each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008 in tabular readable form. [17717/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The pay roll system in operation in my Department is the CorePay system which was implemented on the recommendation of the Department of Finance in 2001. There are no bodies under the aegis of my Department which operate an independent pay roll system.

The following table gives particulars of the maintenance and on-going development costs incurred by the CorePay system for the years 2004 to 2007 and to-date in 2008.

The figure of €58,403 for 2008 includes the maintenance costs for the year and the introduction of an electronic payslip which has eliminated the use of paper payslips across the Department.