Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 24 March 2021, if the allocation of an Eircode will be expedited to ensure broadband provision in the case of persons (details supplied). [21841/21]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Capita Business Support Services Ireland, trading as Eircode assigns Eircodes 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 postal address assigned an Eircode is published on the free to use Eircode Finder website, a notification letter is issued to the property occupant containing the Eircode of that address and an updated Eircode Database is provided to licensed businesses for their use. Once the Eircode database is updated on a quarterly basis it is then a matter for individual Eircode database providers to release updates to commercial businesses in accordance with the terms of their licence agreements.

An Post have informed my officials that the individual's address data has been recorded in their systems and this information should be issued from An Post GeoDirectory to Eircode in the next assignment of the databaseMy officials have requested Eircode to contact and liaise directly with the individual in question regarding the assignment of an Eircode for this new property address.

Early assignment of Eircodes is contingent on An Post facilitating the increased frequency of new and changed addresses from quarterly to monthly to Eircode through their subsidiary An Post GeoDirectory. My officials are working with An Post, Ordnance Survey Ireland, An Post GeoDirectory and Eircode to expedite the process of assigning Eircodes for new properties with postal addresses and geo-locations.