Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost to her Department to convert to using Eircode; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7610/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department of Social Protection will be undertaking a phased introduction of postcodes across its systems and processes.

The initial phase will be completed in 2015. To this end, the Project Governance Committee of the Department has approved the issue of a supplementary request for tender to a framework of approved bidders in order to implement the technical changes required to the IT systems of the Department. The associated costs of this initial phase will be known on completion of this technical work.