Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I support the introduction of postcodes in this country and I want to see it work well. There are three areas of concern. Irish language people are concerned that the increasing use of English placenames and abbreviations may become part of the postcodes. The Minister might advise me as to how we can guard against that.

A second concern is that because someone can now go to the person's individual letterbox, there may be personal security or personal data implications. I am aware that in Scotland there was a legal case regarding postcodes and the outcome was that because it only referred to a district but did not identify the individual house, it could not be regarded as data. The unspoken implication was that had the additional three digits that identified an individual house been in place, there was a potential breach of data protection.

Would it be possible to get a breakdown of the costs because it appears to be a very expensive project?

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