Mr. Andy Smith:

An additional point is that IT can also be a bit of a red herring because if one uses the United Kingdom for example – I referred earlier to the fluctuations on a daily basis – the individual loaders of vehicles have to make a decision each day based on volume. They must decide to group deliveries in areas, for example, Dublin or Kildare, or whatever location they operate in. In the United Kingdom, based on the sequence, they can make very logical decisions, such as if a certain vehicle has reached capacity then a subsector postcode could be moved to a neighbouring vehicle so there is not excess mileage and we do not have to add an additional route or have vehicles operating below capacity. The proposed system does not allow us to narrow down the data. It is not just a question of IT, it relates to the decision making capacity of individual drivers and they do not derive any benefit from Eircode in terms of decision making.