Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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268. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of plans by those involved in the delivery of the national postcode contract to launch an alternative code simultaneously to address key functionality that the contracted code does not provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25437/15]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The Postcode Contractor, Capita, who have been awarded the contract to develop and implement the postcodes project, propose to launch eircodes within the next few weeks. My Department have been advised by Capita that they have no plans to launch an alternative code along the lines outlined in the Question.