Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 428: To ask the Minister for Education and Science 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. [17713/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's staff payroll and school employees' payrolls (the latter catering for some 75,000 current and retired payees) were implemented prior to 2004. The licence and external support costs for these payrolls for the years in question are as follows:

2004 — €101,000

2005 — €156,000

2006 — €148,000

2007 — €225,000

2008 — €197,000 (anticipated for full year)

My Department currently provides a payroll service for staff employed by the State Examinations Commission and a HR/payroll service for staff employed by An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta & Gaelscolaíochta. Certain bodies under the aegis of the Department provide full administration services (human resource, accounting, payroll, accommodation, purchasing, IT, maintenance, portering etc) on a shared basis to related bodies. Details relating to the cost of implementing payroll systems in individual agencies are not available in the Department and are a matter for the individual agencies concerned.