KENNY LOOKS FORWARD TO NEW POSTCODE SYSTEM IN 2014

Posted on July 4, 2013 12:07 PM   |   Permanent Link   

Sean Kenny, the Dublin Bay North Labour TD and member of the Oireachtas Communications Committee has said he anticipates that the new postal code system will be up and running by September of 2014.

"The final tender for a national postcode system was issued last week; the responses will be evaluated by the department during August and I will bring a comprehensive proposal to Government for approval in September. Ireland is the only European Union country not to use postcodes, with Dublin the only city in the country split into districts. Some addresses are developing into status symbols over the decades and it is about time that Ireland had a modern postal code system."

"The new codes are likely to carry numbers and letters of up to seven or eight characters to pinpoint every home and business in the country. The system will be used in addition to existing addresses in a bid to protect local heritage of unique townland names and knowledge used in some rural areas. Furthermore, the idea that the name of a townland which you could use in your address today would disappear overnight is not likely, and this is something that I welcome."

"Plans for a postcode system were first mooted in 2005 and I want to pay tribute to my colleague, Liz McManus, the former Deputy and Labour Party Spokesperson on Communications, for the work that she did on the issue of unique postal identifiers, which appears to be the method that will be used for the new system."