No watchdog backing for Eircode

Senior civil servants are to face calls to appear again before an Oireachtas committee after a second organisation seemed to distance itself from suggestions that it was “satisfied” with privacy provisions of the postcode to be launched this year.

Michael Moynihan, Fianna Fáil spokesman for communications, said that statements made by an official from the Department of Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources at an Oireachtas meeting last November gave the impression that both Digital Rights Ireland and the National Consumer Agency were satisfied with the privacy measures taken by the Department in relation to Eircode.

Patricia Cronin, head of the Department of Communications’ postcodes division addressed a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications two months ago.