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Seanad
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Dublin 6W postal designation

Summary

Senator Keane asks the Leader to pursue a local issue involving Dublin 6W’s distinctive postal designation and welcomes the effectiveness of Seanad lobbying.

I welcome the spring statement because often the Government is accused of doing business on the hoof or as a result of lobbying. A projected spring statement is common in other European countries, such as France and Britain. We are part of the European Union where monetary decisions are made, not on a year-to-year basis but on a planned projected basis over three to five years. That is the way good, sound economy-based principles are advocated and that is the way the Government is doing it. In the €1.5 billion fiscal space we will have, there is opportunity. I ask the Leader to ensure we too get an opportunity to put forward our proposals for the fiscal space that has been announced today.

I was at a presentation in the audiovisual room on the national postcode system for Ireland, which I welcome. When it was first announced two or three years ago, I brought up the issue of my area of Dublin 6 west. I am glad to learn that in the Dublin 6W unique to each address, the "W" is allowed for only in the Dublin 6 west area. I welcome that wholeheartedly because I had been making representations on it.

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Denis O'Donovan An Leas-Chathaoirleach Fianna Fáil

Senator Keane, without interruption.

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It is the only area in Ireland that has its own unique letter, allowed only for Dublin 6 west. Sometimes one's lobbying in the Seanad does work and I welcome it.

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