Gail Alexan­der

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Most of the is­sues re­gard­ing de­lays in pay­ment of pub­lic of­fi­cers’ salaries in six min­istries were be­ing re­solved yes­ter­day, with ef­forts to com­plete all pay­ments by Mon­day, ac­cord­ing to Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo.

“We sin­cere­ly re­gret the in­con­ve­nience caused and thank all pub­lic of­fi­cers for their pa­tience and un­der­stand­ing dur­ing this pe­ri­od of ad­min­is­tra­tive tran­si­tion,” Tan­coo said in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

He was re­ply­ing to Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MP Colm Im­bert’s query on re­cent re­ports that some pub­lic of­fi­cers were ex­pe­ri­enc­ing late pay­ments of their salaries.

Im­bert called for the Fi­nance Min­is­ter to state the rea­sons for the de­lay in salary pay­ments for pub­lic ser­vants, pub­lic of­fi­cers and work­ers in the State sec­tor for Oc­to­ber.

Tan­coo said, “The de­lays re­late to the on­go­ing re­align­ment of gov­ern­ment min­istries and de­part­ments which took ef­fect at the be­gin­ning of Oc­to­ber 2025.

“The process in­volved sev­er­al steps, in­clud­ing the trans­fer of per­son­nel, bud­getary al­lo­ca­tions, and re­lat­ed ad­min­is­tra­tive sys­tems be­tween min­istries. Dur­ing this tran­si­tion­al pe­ri­od, spe­cif­ic pay­roll and ac­count­ing process­es re­quired ad­di­tion­al ver­i­fi­ca­tion to en­sure the ac­cu­ra­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty of fund dis­burse­ments.”

Tan­coo added, “Un­til em­ploy­ees un­der a re­align­ment are trans­ferred to their new­ly as­signed min­istries, salaries will be paid and funds as­signed via a hy­brid process of the IHRIS sys­tem and man­u­al pay­ments.

“As of to­day, most of the is­sues have been re­solved and of­fi­cers paid.

“The Min­istry of Fi­nance, through the Of­fice of the Comp­trol­ler of Ac­counts, is work­ing as­sid­u­ous­ly with the rel­e­vant af­fect­ed line min­istries, agen­cies and banks to fi­nalise the nec­es­sary ad­just­ments and en­sure that the re­main­ing af­fect­ed of­fi­cers are paid by Mon­day, No­vem­ber 3rd.”

Im­bert called for an ex­pla­na­tion on the fact that in ar­eas where there was no re­align­ment, there was al­so late pay­ment of salaries.

Tan­coo said he was sure Im­bert was well enough aware that if he put the ques­tion in the for­mal way, it would be an­swered.