Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

Question 389: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of rural post offices in each county in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7616/12]

Pat Rabbitte (Minister, Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; Dublin South West, Labour)

Post office network issues are an operational matter for the Board and management of An Post and one in which I have no statutory function.