Mr. Mark Griffin:

It is a subsidiary of An Post. The cost of the ten-year contract is €38 million and we have spent approximately €21 million. If the design of An Post had been geared to deal exclusively with the delivery of mail, we would have made a big mistake. The system was not designed to deal exclusively with the delivery of mail. As there has been a decline of 35% in mail volumes in the past few years, I am glad that is so. We can look at what the product was intended to do. It was to provide a unique address for all properties; 35% of property addresses in the State are non-unique. In that regard, the nearest to us in the OECD is Portugal which is at a figure of 2%. The system was also relevant to the development of e-commerce in reducing the cost of logistics, furthering access to emergency services and reducing the State's input.