Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour)
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482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs who are job sharing will be allowed to substitute; and the progress that has been made with technical implementation issues regarding payroll to allow these measures to be put in place. [1216/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Special Need Assistants who are job sharing will be allowed to undertake work as substitute Special Need Assistants. 

There are one hundred and thirty thousand payees paid on payrolls operated by my Department on a fortnightly basis. 

The payroll systems are being adopted on an ongoing basis to enable legal, budgetary and other negotiated changes and agreements to be implemented. The development of amendments and enhancements to such large payrolls requires substantial testing and checking prior to live implementation to ensure that correct payments are issued.

There are a number of enhancements and amendments to the payroll systems to fulfil legal requirements currently being progressed.  It is expected that the enhancement to enable Special need assistants who are job sharing undertake substitute work will be completed in April.