Senator doubts post code’s value for money

The State’s new postcode will not deliver the value for money when it is launched next month, a senator and professor of economics at Trinity College has warned.

Senator Sean Barrett made the comments yesterday at an Oireachtas Committee on Communications hearing on Eircode, where he called for an independent cost benefit analysis to be carried out on the €27m postcode.

He was speaking following a presentation to the committee by GPS expert Gary Delaney, who claimed that Eircode’s design “will not address the needs of a modern economy.”