Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 April 2023
208. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the way a person who wishes to have their address changed or an error corrected that is listed on the Eircode website or system can do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17550/23]
View answerEircodes are assigned to new property addresses using a valid postal address and verified geo-locations. All postal addresses, geographical addresses and geo-locations are provided to Eircode from authoritative sources, namely An Post and Tailte Éireann through their subsidiary company An Post GeoDirectory. An Post collects information on all new and existing buildings, as well as changes to existing addresses, and Tailte Éireann provides the geo-locations for these buildings.
Eircode does not change existing postal addresses and the Eircode can be simply added to the address normally used for the property. This address can be the most commonly used address, the postal address or/and the geographical address. The free to use online Eircode Finder (finder.eircode.ie/#/), which receives 2.5 million average monthly lookups, provides both the geographical and postal addresses for properties in the state.
Householders who have queries relating to the postal address of their property can contact An Post by email at: eircode@anpost.ie or Customer Service on 01-7057600. In the case where An Post makes changes to the address, the updated information will be provided to Eircode by An Post GeoDirectory.
More broadly, the Deputy might be interested to know that due to continued growth in adoption of Eircodes, the timeframe to assign Eircodes has now been reduced from quarterly to a monthly basis. Each new Eircode is published on the free-to-use Eircode Finder app and a notification letter will be issued to the property occupant containing the new Eircode of that address. In addition, an updated Eircode Database file is provided to licensed business organisations for use.
