Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party)
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102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the interim upgrade of the payroll system has been completed; the estimated timeframe for when employees and retired teachers will receive their payslips electronically; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26650/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Department provides a payroll service to primary, post-primary, non-teaching and retired staff and this service is managed by the Department’s Payroll Division in Athlone.

The payroll system is an electronic system and a number of processes are already highly automated. For instance, the submission of claims by schools for payment through the Online Claims System (OLCS).

The planned software upgrades of these four payrolls was completed as scheduled in July 2021.

The Department continues to work on opportunities to improve the existing payroll service and we are progressing the next project in the provision of access to an electronic version of pay slips to all payees.A viable technical solution has been identified and a pilot project will commence over the next few months to ensure the solution can deliver at scale to meet the needs of over 120,000 payees and provide a secure solution to protect personal data.We are in the early stages of engagement with stakeholders on the proposed solution and the plan is to phase in the option to use this service for all payees by Q3 2022.