Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25869/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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In general, business units in my Department engage with the school community and in this context, Eircodes have been appended to post-primary school addresses on the Department's central database. Work is currently ongoing to add the Eircodes to primary school addresses. My Department was represented on the interdepartmental group established to implement the postcode system and has contributed to the process as appropriate. Eircodes are included in Department addresses and letterheads.

In order to minimise costs and disruption to the everyday work of the Department, any development work needed to support Eircodes will continue to be scheduled along with other changes to our systems.

The information sought by the Deputy regarding Eircode usage in the State Agencies under the remit of my Department is not collected. The Department has sought the relevant details from each of the Agencies and will endeavour to provide the information as soon as possible.