Meath council members in Eircode scrap call

County councillors have called on the Government to abandon plans for the Eircode postcode system and, instead, adopt a satellite service council staff are using to pinpoint locations.

The members of Meath County Council unanimously passed a motion urging Communications Minister Alex White to reopen the postcode tendering process. And, second time around, not to exclude from the process several small Irish businesses specialising in location technology.

They include the Loc8 service the council already uses to locate everything from buildings to individual street lamps. Loc8 and other operators could not tender for the Eircode contract because their turnover did not meet the required threshold.