Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We would have to be careful about applying that to every house. I was involved at the start in the design and implementation of the eircode system. One of the biggest challenges then was with the Data Protection Commissioner, who was Billy Hawkes at the time. He was concerned about each individual house having a readily identifiable address, as it were, for general data protection regulation, GDPR, reasons. There might be concern about having an eircode displayed in a prominent way on every single house.

There are safety benefits, as the Acting Chair said, in having a clearly findable code in public buildings, factories or farms, so that if someone cannot remember it, the emergency services can very quickly find what the code is. There is merit in that. We are looking at reviewing all of it and upgrading the eircode system so that might be something to be considered in that process.