Written answers
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Department of Education and Skills
School Staffing
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party)
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518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the date for the issuing of P60s for 2014 to special needs assistants. [5802/15]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department operates the largest payroll in the State, with approximately 98,000 school employees and pensioners paid every fortnight. These payrolls have become increasingly complex over the past five years, due to the following:
- Introduction of three salary scales and two sets of allowances, by comparison to a single salary scale and set of allowances for all teachers, prior to 2010.In addition, the school employee payrolls have a high volume of substitute and casual appointments for payment, which is not a feature of other comparable payrolls. Work is ongoing at present to incorporate payments to home tutors through the payroll, which will broaden the range of payees coming within the remit of the school employee payrolls.
- Introduction of the Universal Social Charge (USC), Pension related Deduction (PRD) and the single pension scheme.
- Implementation of Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001 and new sick leave regulations for schools employees etc.
There is a huge level of work associated with the issuing of P60s and my Department is arranging to have them issued as soon as possible.
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