Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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 to 2007, inclusive, and to date in 2008 in tabular readable form. [17708/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.

A new payroll system was installed in my Department in 2001. The costs indicated cover software maintenance, modifications required, support and upgrades to the system including a module introduced in 2005 to enable staff to view their salary and to claim travel and subsistence costs electronically on the Department's computer network. In addition, €20,000 per annum from 2004 to 2006 and €24,000 in 2007 was paid in licensing fees in respect of the payroll system's use of the Department's computer hardware. The salary costs of the staff operating the system are not included. Payments made by state agencies under the remit of my Department are an operational matter for the agencies themselves.