Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the nine requirements of a postcode from his Department's own postcode working group were not incorporated into the Eircode design; and the persons who and the body which specifically made the decision to exclude or ignore the nine requirements. [29262/15]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The design of the Eircode followed a public procurement process. During that process a range of options for the postcode structure were evaluated. That evaluation process, together with stakeholder engagement which preceded the procurement, helped inform the format of the Eircode design. The Eircode design chosen has been tailored to meet the needs of Ireland’s addressing structure in that approximately 35% of Irish addresses are non-unique and many properties can have multiple forms of address. The final design of the code was approved by Government on the recommendation of my Department.