John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are involved in a process and representatives from An Post are due to come before us next. The committee has a responsibility in respect of this issue and it will certainly do whatever it can to ensure that progress is made.

I thank Mr. McEntee, Mr. McNamara, Mr. McGann and Mr. Martin for their presentation and submission and for engaging with members during these proceedings. This has been a very worthwhile exercise and I am of the view that it is perhaps easier to tease this matter out to an even greater extent here than in the Dáil Chamber. We fully appreciate that the Irish Postmasters Union plays in respect of the post office network. We all want to get this process across the line in order that the post office network will be maintained and sustained. I hope the latter will be the outcome when the process to which I refer has concluded.