Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If the Deputy is asking whether the emergency services, for example, the ambulance service and so on, would be capable of using it, the answer is "Yes", but it is not just a system designed to improve the efficacy of postal delivery or whatever. It is as much a response to business in the logistical sector, for example, where there has been a growing demand in recent years and a believed capacity to grow employment in this sector, a demand from Departments such as the Department of Social Protection, the Revenue Commissioners, CSO, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and so on. It would make the task of delivering services, which was one aspect of the point raised by Deputy Dooley, immensely more efficient and effective. It is not purely a postcode system to modernise the delivery of post. It is as much a tool for business to grow employment in the digital age and in the context of growing digital enterprise in this country as it is to provide a basic mail service.