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

Photo of Patrick O'DonovanPatrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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He was responsible for the IT sector within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, but he had no specific expertise of coding for postcodes and so on. He came from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and had no connection to Mr. Griffin's Department.

Obviously that was a skill set that was available. If one went down to Sir John Rogerson's Quay, one would probably find thousands of people with that skill set, yet the position was still not advertised.