Mr. Neil McDonnell:

That point relates to the two businesses that would deliver to premises, either business or private in the case of Palletxpress and UPS. It was important to bring a company such as BOC Industrial Gases before the committee to demonstrate that one of the other key failings of the system is that it is only a solution for letter boxes. If one is going to places that do not have a letter box, this is not a solution at all - good, bad or indifferent, Eircode is useless. A lot of the type of business that BOC and Niall Cotton are involved in relates to farm outbuildings, warehouses and workshops that do not have a postal address. If they do not have a postal address now, they will not have an Eircode when the system comes in.

We also wish to raise issues relating to tourism and the road network. From those points of view, Eircode is useless because it only assigns a postcode to a postal address and nothing else.