Written answers

Thursday, 1 December 2005

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Postal Services

5:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when process will be concluded appertaining to the postcodes issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37489/05]

Photo of Noel DempseyNoel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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In order to examine the introduction of a postcode system in Ireland, I established a working group of people with experience of the postal sector, together with a representative from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, which is the lead Department for the Irish spatial data infrastructure initiative, to examine the issue of the introduction of a postcode system in Ireland. This group produced its report earlier this year.

Following from the recommendations of the working group report, I asked the Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg, to appoint project managers to support the postcode project by providing technical and economic advice including matching the costs and benefits of postcode introduction. These consultants will be managed by a national postcode project board, comprising representatives of Government Departments, together with public and private sector organisations that I appointed earlier this year. ComReg is currently in the process of recruiting the project managers and it is expected that the consultants will present a proposal to the national postcode project board describing in sufficient detail the most appropriate postcode system for Ireland by April next year with a launch date for the postcode system of no later than January 2008.

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