Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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2227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount spent by his 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. [28138/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 made provision for the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to enter into a contract for the development, implementation and maintenance of a national postcode system.  Responsibility for the Eircode system rests with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

In terms of the impact on my Department, none of its applications were considered for any data loading to be carried out as part of the Eircode project and no expenditure was incurred developing business systems for it.

Certain datasets related to the Department's areas of responsibility, including the register of electors, were identified for uploading. However, the compilation and maintenance of these datasets is the statutory responsibility of local authorities and they are managed on their behalf by the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA).  The LGMA work programme is funded by way of agreed levies on local authorities.

Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency under the aegis of my Department, including the LGMA, to facilitate the provision of information directly to members of the Oireachtas. The contact email address for the LGMA is: .