Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 118: To ask the Taoiseach 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. [17721/08]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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My Department outsourced its payroll administration to the Department of Finance in each of the years 2004 to January 2008, thus availing of capacity on that Department's payroll systems at no cost to my Department. Any implementation cost associated with the systems used by Department of Finance was met by that Department.

In February 2008, the Department outsourced its payroll administration to the Financial Shared Services Centre in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform as part of a move to avail of efficiencies afforded by shared services and the opportunity to integrate systems and services through the use of the existing Department of Justice core pay system. There was no expenditure by my Department associated with the implementation of this system.

The cost of implementing the Central Statistic's Office payroll system is outlined in the table below. These costs include purchase and maintenance costs associated with software licences and reporting tools. They also include the costs associated with upgrades and modifications to the system.