Eamonn Maloney (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am honoured to be the first to do so. I have not spoken to the Minister about it. There is an obsession with measuring the postal system and next-day delivery whereby one could post a letter in Kildare Street and receive it at home in Tallaght the following morning, which happens. However, one does not expect to receive one's letter the following morning if one lives in Bundoran or Westport. We must be realistic about it. There was a move to establish an independent regulator or system to measure the performance of the postal system. Has that been agreed or is progress being made on it? I agree that there should be an independent body to monitor the postal service.