Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The licence currently in place was due to expire this year. A six-month extension was given to An Post. If another State agency or a private agency was to take it on, would we need to provide for an extension in ten or 15 years' time or for whatever the licence period is in the legislation? If we had not engaged in this process, would we have been required under EU competition processes to put the licence on the open market?