Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of upgrading information technology systems and or databases to incorporate the use of Eircode; if the use of Eircode is mandatory in his department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8630/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Eircodes have been appended to addresses on the Department’s Financial Management System and post-primary school addresses on the Department’s central database. Work is currently ongoing to add the Eircode functionality for primary school addresses.

A project will commence shortly in my Department to investigate options for the matching of Eircodes with pupil addresses on pupil databases.

In order to minimise costs and disruption to the everyday work of my Department, any development work to date to support Eircodes, has been scheduled along with other changes to our systems.