Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

No. The decision had not been taken at that time that, as part of the project, we needed to encode public sector databases. That is why the cost was €18 million rather than €18 million plus an additional quantum.