Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 16 September 2016
783. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25877/16]
View answerMy Department has implemented technical changes to its main ICT platform since July 2015 to enable the capture and implementation of Eircodes. All of the auto-coded unique addresses have already been incorporated onto the platform. Non-unique addresses are being updated manually during customer interactions with business areas. To date, 57% of the Department’s primary customer household address table has a postcode link.
The most frequently issued local and automatically generated communications have been modified to reflect the Eircode field. Any remaining communications are being modified during the normal business change process. Over 250 different items of correspondence now include Eircode amounting to in excess of 600,000 items of computer generated correspondence per month.
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
