Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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2048. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on designing, implementing and supporting the Eircode system in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [28145/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Department undertook a business change study in 2015 for the Project which cost €7,012.92 inclusive of VAT.

The cost of the contract for IT work detailed above was €298,890.00 inclusive of VAT. The project was completed on time and within budget.

The Department has purchased the Eircode Address Database (ECAD) service to provide ongoing validation of postcodes with addresses at a cost of €36,900.00 p.a. inclusive of VAT. The ECAD also provides access to geocodes as it is correlated directly with GeoDirectory X Y co-ordinates.

There is also an annual Data Access fee of €615.00 (inclusive of VAT) per annum.