Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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1814. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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. [25878/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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My Department's primary interest in the project relates to the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) which contains data, including address particulars in respect of the 2.59 million licensed vehicles and 2.74 million driving licence holders in the country.  The NVDF system has been fully enabled for vehicle records to process Eircodes with an estimated 40% of the vehicle database populated with an Eircode. The driving licence elements are currently been implemented and are expected to be delivered by the end of Q4 2016.

The NVDF system issues 10 million postal items annually, all of which have been modified to use Eircodes.  In addition the NVDF processes in the order of 10,000 addresses updates daily and procedures have been put in place for the public to update their Eircode in the relevant systems such as Online Motor Tax. The NVDF will benefit from the National Post Code (Eircode) System by increasing postal delivery accuracy which is important in ensuring that key postal items such as Motor Tax disks and Penalty Point notices get delivered to the correct address.    

In relation to the agencies under my Department's remit, this is a matter for the agencies themselves and I have forwarded the Deputy's question to the agencies for their direct response. If the Deputy does not receive a reply within ten working days, he should contact my private office.