Euro Changeover Board of Ireland seeks Electronic Converter for Every Household  The Euro Changeover Board of Ireland has gone to tender for the production of 1.5 million hand-held electronic converters that will convert Irish pounds to euro and euro to Irish pounds in a simple, easy-to-use manner. Research shows that a significant number of people in Ireland are concerned about how to convert from Irish pounds to euro and how to check prices in euro for goods and services. The aim is that before euro notes and coins arrive next January, a simple, easy-to-use electronic converter will be distributed to every household in the country. This will empower every household to do conversions for themselves. The converter will be easy to operate with only two functions - pounds to euro and euro to pounds. The distribution of the euro converter will complement the Board's extensive communications campaign, which includes advertising, direct marketing, public relations, the euro roadshow touring every county in the country, a lo call number and website. Mr Philip Hamell, Chairperson of the Euro Changeover Board of Ireland, said that the Government Supplies Agency in the Office of Public Works has placed advertisements in the national newspapers and in the Official Journal of the European Communities inviting tenders for this contract. "Our public information campaign will continue right up to the end of the changeover next February. Our aim is that everybody should have information about the changeover and that they can manage the conversion to euro quickly and easily," Mr Hamell said. Information on the euro changeover is available on the Board's website www.euro.ie or from its LoCall number 1890 20 10 50. Details of the Euro Roadshow itinerary are promoted in advance in local media.