Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 September 2018
244. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to move to a system of digital or paperless payslips for teachers in view of the fact it is perceived that the current system is outdated and adds unnecessary costs and burden on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37841/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere are 120,000 staff paid on a fortnightly basis on the payrolls operated by my Department. The primary objective is to ensure that the staff are paid on time and correctly.
It is my Department’s aim to provide more services online for school employees.
The provision of a self-service facility where it will be possible for staff to access their payslips is included as part of the upgrading and modernisation of the schools employees payroll project which is being progressed at present.
Currently, ETB payroll is delivered through 16 local payroll processing locations and the aim of the ongoing ETB Payroll Shared Services project is to consolidate the payroll function across multiple sites into a single shared services environment in the Education Shared Business Services (ESBS) Centre. Following the finalisation of a detailed procurement process, a contract was signed in May 2018 with CoreHR for the provision of a payroll and TandS system. This system will be used to run the payroll function for all ETBs once the ESBS Centre goes live in 2019. Ultimately, this new system will pay the 27,000 payees that are currently being paid by 16 ETBs across Ireland. The migration of each of the 16 ETB payroll functions will happen in waves with the first of these migration waves due to take place in 2019. As each of the 16 ETB payrolls migrate to the ESBS Centre all their employees will have access to online payslips only.
