Ged Nash
Question:200. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will engage with a person (details supplied) and resolve an ongoing payroll issue. [69864/26]
View answerTuesday, 6 October 2026
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My department provides a payroll service to over 3,700 schools and the Payroll Division relies on schools to submit information in a timely manner to ensure prompt and correct payment of salary.
The department issued the 2026/2027 staffing allocation schedules to schools in March 2026. This provides schools with its teacher allocation for the forthcoming school year and ensures that the school has sufficient planning time for its recruitment.
During a school year, there can be over 10,000 primary school teachers who require payroll adjustments and the majority of those occur during the summer months. Payroll adjustments can include teachers being recruited for the first time by a school, resigning from their school, rolling over their contract from one year to the next, starting or returning from a career break or starting to work in a job-sharing capacity or retiring.
It can take between 6 to 8 weeks to onboard a teacher to salary and my department committed to ensuring that where schools submitted instructions no later than 10th July, then salary would be paid to the teacher for the first payday in September. Any instructions that are received after that date will be processed in date order and salary will be paid as soon as possible. The instruction from the school in relation to the teacher concerned was received by my department on 14th September 2026.
I wish to confirm that the teacher referenced in the deputy's question will receive payment on 8th October and any arrears of salary will be paid on that date also.