Eamonn Coghlan (Independent)
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If I am in Spain and I want to go to a particular area in Madrid, which let us say has the zip code 16924, my GPS will pick it up. If I am in New York in the United States and I want to go to an area with the code 19085, if I put it into my GPS, it will take me there.

If I am in the UK or Northern Ireland and I put in BT4 1PN or whatever, it will come up and I will be taken there. Surely with Eircode, if I put in D21 US4 as the unique identifier, the system will have to be built into GPS for GPS to accept it. I am sure Capita Ireland, which is building the new system for us, will test that to ensure delivery to an exact address as opposed to a location within the vicinity.