Mr. Ben King:

We have to review where we are going with Eircodes next. As the Minister of State said, the contract expires at the end of next year and there is an option for the Minister to extend the contract to Capita for a further five years. These issues that have arisen will be taken into account when we do the full review. We worked with the Coimisinéir Teanga at the beginning of the project and the 2015 report highlighted the fact that there was a poor level of translation of Irish addresses and some mistakes in the GeoDirectory database. GeoDirectory and Capita worked together with logainm.ieto update the database on a regular basis. Our understanding from GeoDirectory is that that process continues today, and was also continuing when the 2019 report by an Coimsinéir Teanga came out. GeoDirectory has received another update from logainm.iewhich covers 2020 and 2021.

Those addresses will be updated by GeoDirectory and fed straight into Eircode, which will then update the database as soon as those data are received. That information will be fed into the Eircode system.