Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion
11:20 am
Mr. Liam Duggan:
That would not be included. There are other things also. I will give an example and ask the Deputy to excuse the example used. If there is an "F" with anything in the next field followed by the letters "CK", it looks like a word. Therefore, the word "Feck" will not be included. We have engaged in that exercise. When we launch, we will have a contact centre, with people available to take calls and deal with the general public. The website look-up tool will be in operation at that time. Therefore, we will be geared up to deal with the general public and queries they may have.
We are in discussions with Google Maps which licenses the data used elsewhere in the world. It would like to license the data used here and imbed them in its Google Maps system.
We will have a code of practice for junk mail. When we are selling on the database to service providers and so on, we will have a code of practice specifying how the data can be used. It predominantly covers data protection issues, but there are other issues also.
The Deputy mentioned Christmas cards. There is no charge for looking up an address in the look-up site. We will have a limit on the number of look-ups that can be made in one day. It will be limited to something like 15, but we will relax this figure at times like Christmas when people will have a list of addresses to which they want to send mail. They will be able to enter the addresses and get the codes.
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