Fine Gael TD Regina O’Doherty and Labour Minister Alex White at ‘it’.
Aha.
What did the communications minister just say?
Anyone?
Previously: Eircode on Broadsheet
Transcript via Kildare Street
Via Joe Leogue
Fine Gael TD Regina O’Doherty and Labour Minister Alex White at ‘it’.
Aha.
What did the communications minister just say?
Anyone?
Previously: Eircode on Broadsheet
Transcript via Kildare Street
Via Joe Leogue
At a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Transport and Communications committee this morning, Deputy Patrick O’Donovan (Fine Gael) asked representatives of An Post and Capita why Dublin postal codes are being retained with the introduction of Eircode.
Was it D4 this?
Neil McDonnell of FTA Ireland addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications this morning to relay his concerns on Eircode, the new address system that is to be implemented in Ireland.
“Eircode is a bad postcode…Two adjacent poperties will have different randomly assigned eircodes…Eircode will impose a significant cost on SMEs in Ireland with no tangible benefit…As a national postcode however, Eircode lacks vision, imagination, ambition and most of all, practicality.”
Meanwhile…
Get on the Eircode story, jounalists. I’m told, by people who know about such things, that it’s the next Irish Water.
— lɐƃɹǝℲ (@Fergal) November 5, 2014
RUN!
Previously: Decrypting The Irish Postcode Saga
Further to the launch of Eircode.
Gary Delaney is a GPS and positioning consultant and a director of Loc8 Code, the “modern alternative” to a post code rejected by the government in place of Eircode..
Gary writes:
“Of The total cost to the economy of the proposed postcode is estimated at €100million (NOT the €26.5 million popularly quoted);- yet An Post have said they do not need it, the code is to be mainly random and therefore prone to error, the code is limited to “letterboxes”, the code will not solve public safety issues and the needs of the emergency services, the code will be optional and therefore may not enjoy popular use, the code has not been subjected to oversight and there is no guarantee that the global leaders in Navigation devices will support it as they are already supporting other cheaper, more robust and more flexible next generation solutions….
Anyone?
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The new Irish Postcode system will be called EirCode – website launched in the last few minutes: http://t.co/k1bbejAOVL
— Richard Cantwell (@ManAboutCouch) April 28, 2014