Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources

Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources (Revised)

9:00 am

Photo of Timmy DooleyTimmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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I have a number of questions on subhead 3, the profile of expenditure at the end of May indicated that he had expected to spend about €4.3 billion, however the actual expenditure at the end of May was just about €1.5 or €1.6 billion. Was there any particular reason for that?

There were questions in the Chamber on the postcode. A former journalist in this House is now An Coimisinéir Teanga. He had a number of comments about the level of correspondence he has had from various different people about Eircode and the complaints he has received on the use of the Irish Language in that regard. It is just another indicator of the problems associated with Eircode. In terms of looking at value for money in the long term use of Eircode, does he have plans or proposals to review Eircode as a suitable system? Has the Minister proposals for changing the nature of the Eircode to create a hierarchical structure?