Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 July 2018
2178. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the €225,156 external expenditure costs paid to a company (details supplied) for national vehicle driver file Eircodes implementation in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32968/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe expenditure of €225,156 refers to a contract relating to the necessary infrastructure and software adjustments to the NVDF (National Vehicle and Driver File) IT systems for the integration of eircodes.
The NVDF system contains details of all 2.6 million registered vehicles and 2.8 million registered drivers in Ireland. Given that the NVDF system processes approximately 10,000 address updates daily and the fact that NVDF data is shared on a statutory basis with other government bodies, the implementation of the Eircode within the NVDF facilitated both greater address data quality for the Department and wide public participation in the National Postcode system. The NVDF Eircode Implementation project covered all core applications, public-facing systems, 3rd party interfaces and key activities such as printing . The changes enable the capture and output of the Eircode against the system's address data-set and the input of an Eircode in NVDF applications results in the retrieval of the corresponding address from the data-set provided by the Eircode group which assists the customer in providing a more detailed address.
The NVDF application suite covers front and back-office activities in all motor tax office outlets relating to the issue of motor tax discs and all associated stock and financial reconciliations, all change of ownership notifications to the NVDF and Online platform which contains the motor tax system which accounts for some 74% of all motor tax transactions and change of vehicle ownership for motor dealers.
