Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Chair Designate of An Post: Discussion.

1:30 pm

Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

The arrangements for postcodes are up for review this year. We have part of that contract and we will be tendering for the full contract. That will allow us to extend eircodes to all business and family addresses. A problem that sometimes arises at the moment is in respect of the multiplicity of apartments that now exist and the transition of individuals within those apartments. That is a particular issue, of which I am sure politicians have experience. When blocks of apartments go up, the first question is whether there are post boxes and, number two, who the people are living in those apartments and whether they are registered.