Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner also had some difficulties in this regard. In its most recent report, it reflected on how the Eircode system will award individual codes to each address, contrary to advice the then commissioner gave as long ago as 2005. This is being done contrary to his advice when at that time, he warned that a code which identified unique address instead of wider areas would pose a problem for data protection. Nevertheless, on 8 October 2013, the then Minister announced that the Cabinet had agreed to the roll-out of a unique seven-digit character code to each letterbox. I believe this matter should be reconsidered.

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