Pearse Doherty
Question:453. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Eircode has carried out an assessment of the accuracy of the Eircodes assigned to households. [38884/16]
View answerTuesday, 6 December 2016
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Eircode employ rigorous quality assurance and validation check processes on the assignment of Eircodes to each postal address and its corresponding geo-location. The postal addresses and the geo-locations are provided to Eircode from authoritative sources, namely An Post and Ordnance Survey Ireland through their subsidiary company An Post GeoDirectory.
Eircode undertakes a detailed quality checking process of all new address data provided by An Post GeoDirectory. Once this process has been completed, Eircodes are then allocated to each postal address through rigorous rules based assignment with built-in quality checks that verify each Eircode is unique and is accurately assigned to the postal address as well as its geo-location.