Mr. Neil McDonnell:

The code as it is now structured does not recognise the concept of adjacency. In the back of the information pack we have put three local addresses: the Royal College of Surgeons next door, Leinster House, and Buswell's Hotel. Any of the other coding systems will logically place those in a sequence that a man in a hi-vis vest, a man in a van or a woman behind a computer screen allocating these to customers will understand. Eircode randomly assigns these. We are conscious that the providers of this code will say that some other middleware provider will come along with a system, to answer the Chairman's question. We argue that simply introduces another layer of cost and complexity, which makes Eircode in its bare iteration as one looks at it on a piece of paper of no use to people like this who deliver parcels, industrial gases, energy, or pallets to one's address.