Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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122. To ask the Minister for Finance when arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20718/23]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed that payroll for Revenue staff is managed by the National Shared Services Office (NSSO). The NSSO recently notified the staff of all Departments and Offices whose payroll they manage that the NSSO faced a number of challenges in delivering the retrospection of pay increases due under the Building Momentum 2022-2023 agreement. Revenue’s senior HR management team are in frequent contact with their colleagues in the NSSO and are assured that the payment of the arrears of pay is being given the highest priority by the NSSO management team.

The NSSO has confirmed that as of the 30 March 2023 over 99% of the February and October pay increases had been paid and the NSSO were working to deliver the remaining arrears.

The remaining cases (for example, people who have left the service, transfers, promotions involving transition from weekly to fortnightly payment) require further and extensive manual review and calculations, before payments can be processed.

The NSSO had hoped to process all the outstanding payments by the end of Q1 2023. Unfortunately, this was not possible due to the volume of manual work involved, alongside other competing demands, such as a further pay increase effective from 1 March 2023.

The delay in completing the retrospection calculations for a small number of staff is regretted and Revenue welcomes the assurances given by the NSSO that they aim to have all outstanding arrears paid within Q2 2023.