Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that certain telecommunications companies require an Eircode for a household to access their services and the considerable delay that this can cause for persons with new homes in accessing these services. [4377/18]

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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518. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the fact that Eircode receives an updated address file just four times per year (details supplied); and the steps he is planning to take to address this. [4378/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 517 and 518 together.

Eircodes are assigned to new property addresses using a valid postal address and verified geo-locations. An Post collects information on new and existing buildings, as well as changes to existing addresses and Ordnance Survey Ireland provides the geo-locations for these buildings. An Post GeoDirectory, a subsidiary company of An Post and Ordnance Survey Ireland, issue a new release of the GeoDirectory database file on a quarterly basis to Eircode in accordance with their licence agreement.

Each new address assigned an Eircode is sent a notification letter to the occupant containing the Eircode of that address. In 2017, Eircode informed my Department that 22,503 new addresses were assigned an Eircode.