Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will briefly raise two small matters. I was contacted by a constituent regarding Eircode. This individual's eircode is wrong for their home address. When this person gives their eircode, the website brings up a different road that is wrong. They have been trying to contact Eircode to change their eircode address. On the Eircode site, the address shown on the eircode finder is different from the actual address and cannot be changed.According to Eircode:

There is no one official address for any location in Ireland and many versions of an address can exist such as geographic, postal, electoral, or historical addresses.

The Eircode Finder contains the geographic and postal address, both addresses are provided to us ...

Eircode cannot amend or change these addresses.

If something is wrong, it has to be changed. It is not good enough, in the context of a system that has been designed by the State and in which the State is involved, to just say something cannot be changed. That is not appropriate. Eircode will not engage with anyone on this. This matter needs to be taken further.

I would welcome it if the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Planning came before the House. His suggestion on housing has been a watershed in the context of the contribution paid to councils for water for new homes, one-off homes or larger developments. I ask that applications that are being appealed to An Bord Pleanála and that come through the process with full planning permission be treated in the same way and that the people who made them should be entitled to what others are getting when their planning applications are held up just because people object to them.