Noel McCarthy (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an extension of the Eircode system is being considered to allow farm buildings to be assigned an individual Eircode; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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Capita Business Support Services Ireland, trading as Eircode, assigns new Eircodes to building addresses using a valid postal address and verified geo-locations. All postal addresses and geo-locations are provided to Eircode from authoritative sources, namely An Post and Tailte Éireann (Formerly Ordnance Survey Ireland) through their subsidiary company An Post GeoDirectory. An Post collects information on all new and existing buildings, as well as changes to existing addresses, and Tailte Éireann provides the geo-locations for these buildings.

The assignment of postal addresses to farm buildings is a matter for An Post and householders who have queries relating to the postal address of their buildings or assignment of postal addresses can contact An Post by email at: eircode@anpost.ie or Customer Service on 01-7057600. In the case where An Post assigns a postal address or makes changes to an existing address, the new and updated information will be provided to Eircode by An Post GeoDirectory for the assignment of Eircodes.

Due to the growth and success of Eircodes, as seen by the free-to-use online Eircode Finder that receives over 2 million average monthly lookups, Capita, since March 2023, reduced the timeframe to assign Eircodes from quarterly to a monthly basis. All new Eircodes are published on the free-to-use Eircode Finder, a notification letter is issued containing the new Eircode and an updated Eircode Database files is provided to all licenced businesses for their use. The average number of Eircodes assigned monthly basis to new buildings is currently 3,637.