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:

The Deputy may be familiar with the system within the European Union. If a jurisdiction is in serious trouble, what the Commission will do is launch a formal infringement process. This case never reached that stage - it did not get anywhere near that stage. A complaint was issued and comprehensively dealt with by the Department and the Office of Government Procurement. The Commission has written to the Department accepting what we have said, welcoming the changes that have been introduced by the Office of Government Procurement and stating that there is no basis to further the investigation. We are-----