Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will stop all payslips being sent out to SNA’s and school staff as they can be received online and reassign the funds of sending them via post to school facilities and classrooms. [32003/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Education and Youth delivers payroll services to approximately 3,700 non-ETB schools and over 144,000 school staff each fortnight.

Payslips are made available to serving and retired school staff, paid through the Department’s payroll service, in either one of two formats, as paper payslip or as electronic payslips.

The Department uses the Digital Postbox developed by OGCIO (Office of the Government Chief Information Officer) via a payees MyGov.id account.

This e-payslip service will soon transfer to MessagingIE, but will remain on the MyGov account.

Since the introduction of the service in April 2023, there has been a positive response to the adoption of the e- payslip.

There are currently nearly 46,000 payees who have opted to receive their payslip via the Digital Postbox service.

The e-payslip is provided on an opt-in basis. In order to access the Digital Postbox/Messanging.ie service, school staff must first have a Public Services card and a MyGovID account to receive an e payslip on a secure site.

It is therefore not proposed, at this point, to dispense with the option of receiving paper payslips.

As time goes on, and as new teachers join the payroll, it is expected that more persons will elect to receive digital payslips.

The Department of Education and Youth, in conjunction with education partners and teacher representative associations, also continues to promote the use of e- payslips.