Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if An Post will be using the proposed new capita postcode; if they are, and are going to adjust their sorting technology to use postcodes, the amount it will cost and the person that will pay for it; and if An Post's costs are included in Government predicted cost of the postcode. [18281/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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An Post have been actively involved in the design process for the national postcode system and are committed to using the new postcode. The postcode will be fully integrated with An Post mails sortation systems and any integration costs will be part of An Post’s overall capital expenditure costs. An Post mails integration costs are not included in the predicted €26m Exchequer cost of introducing a National Postcode System.

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied with the seemingly random nature of the proposed new Capita Ireland postcode, where the first three characters will be related to a postal district but the remaining four characters will be numbers and letters randomly allocated to letter boxes; and the amount of the Capita Ireland €26 million postcode that is actually allocated to design a code that is 60% random in nature. [18282/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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The Government has approved a national postcode system that will use a 7 character code in an alpha numeric format A65 B2CD. The first three characters will relate to the postal district in which the address is located. The design phase of the project is currently being finalised. The cost to the Exchequer of the national postcode system over the 10 year cycle of the contract is expected to be €26m (ex VAT) with costs covering design, database upgrades, media and postcode distribution, and access to Geodirectory.