Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2015
1135. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the future use of the Eircode system; if An Post is one of the sponsoring bodies; if he has advised An Post to become involved; if there is a human resource difficulty in An Post regarding its use of the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37858/15]
View answerEircodes are an essential piece of the national postal infrastructure, which was successfully rolled out in July 2015 with the assistance of An Post, amongst others. An Post, as universal service provider, was engaged in the design phase of the national postcode project and the Eircodes are fully integrated with An Post mails sortation systems. An Post was also heavily involved in the dissemination of the Eircode to 2.2million residential and business addresses following the project's launch. Both the CEO and mails operations director for An Post have stated publicly that An Post will use eircodes in all their mail operations.
