Parliamentary questions

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

820. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department’s payroll provider originally projected the delivery of the software necessary to release the increments deferred under the Haddington Road agreement. [1526/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

821. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department was made aware by its payroll provider that the development of software necessary to release the increments deferred under the Haddington Road agreement was extremely complex and would take longer to develop than originally projected. [1527/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

822. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the difficulties that have been identified by her Department in the development of the software necessary to release the increments which were deferred under the Haddington Road agreement. [1528/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

823. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the specifications that were provided to her Department’s software provider for the development of the software necessary to release the increments which were deferred under the Haddington Road agreement. [1529/15]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

824. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if increments due to be paid to staff in her Department were paid on the due date. [1530/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

825. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definitive date by which payroll difficulties will be resolved satisfactorily. [1531/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

826. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken by her Department to ensure that difficulties with her Department’s payroll will be resolved satisfactorily. [1532/15]

Departmental Staff Data

Charlie McConalogue

827. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in her Department who have been tasked with ensuring that difficulties with her Department’s payroll in respect of the release of increments which were deferred under the Haddington Road agreement will be resolved satisfactorily. [1533/15]

Departmental Staff Data

Charlie McConalogue

828. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the additional personnel that were assigned to her Department’s payroll section to ensure that difficulties with her Department’s payroll in respect of the release of increments which were deferred under the Haddington Road agreement will be resolved satisfactorily. [1534/15]

Departmental Staff Data

Charlie McConalogue

829. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the staffing levels in her Department’s payroll section. [1535/15]

Departmental Staff Data

Charlie McConalogue

830. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that the staffing level in her Department’s payroll section is sufficient to ensure the issuing of salary payments on a fortnightly basis to serving teachers, special needs assistants, secretaries and caretakers employed under the 1978-79 schemes and retired teachers and non-teaching staff. [1536/15]

Departmental Staff Data

Charlie McConalogue

831. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the changes made to staffing levels in her Department’s payroll section since 2008. [1537/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

832. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definitive date for the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants. [1538/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

833. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if additional software is required to facilitate the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants. [1539/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

834. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if any additional software required to facilitate the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants has been ordered. [1540/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

835. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a timeframe for any additional software required to facilitate the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants has been agreed with her Department’s payroll operators. [1541/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

836. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if any additional software required to facilitate the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants has been delivered. [1542/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

837. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if any additional software required to facilitate the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants has been tested. [1543/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

838. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an apology for the delay in paying increments deferred under the Haddington Road agreement was not posted on her Department’s website. [1544/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Charlie McConalogue

839. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons on her Department’s payroll affected by the delay in paying increments deferred under the Haddington Road agreement. [1545/15]