Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 May 2023
100. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Education if her Department is considering modernising the storage of historic employment records for ease of retrieval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25180/23]
View answerThe payroll systems used by my Department's Payroll Division maintain payroll records for teachers and other schools staff in readily retrievable format for the vast majority of schools staff. Staff from my Department regularly issue payroll records derived from these computerised system.
As the Deputy may be aware, schools remain the employers of teachers and schools staff and the Payroll Division of my Department acts as paymaster on behalf of the school authorities.
For a relatively limited number of teachers who were initially employed and paid directly by schools and prior to the computerisation of payroll records, my Department has some payroll records in various formats including paper format and microfiche. In some cases given the age of the records they have been archived and are stored off site.
At present there are no plans to capture this small number of older historic payroll records in digital format.
