On 21st September 2009, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD, announced that a national postcode system would be introduced by early 2011. This report is a response to that announcement. I am honoured to have been appointed as rapporteur to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to present the report. It is important that the introduction of postcodes is now assessed in light of that announcement and in the context of a radically altered economic climate as well as developments in technologies that offer new ways of providing this change more effectively...