Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that An Post does not use the Eircode system as part of its delivery service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23429/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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As Minister of State in the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, I have responsibility for the postal sector, including the governance of An Post, to ensure the company is fully compliant with the code of practice for the governance of State Bodies and the governance functions included in the statutory framework underpinning An Post. Operational matters and the role of developing commercial strategies for mail delivery service is a matter for the Board and the management of An Post and not one in which I, as Minister, have a statutory function. Consequently, the mails delivery service is a matter for An Post.

An Post have advised the Department that Eircodes have been fully integrated into An Post’s automated sorting systems, including their mail centres and An Post’s national automated parcel hub (DPH) where Eircode has also been fully integrated in the plant’s operating system. An Post actively encourages the use, by mailers, of a full postal address including Eircode.