James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Mangan to the meeting and I compliment her on her new role as chairman of the CIB. What are her views on the overall restructuring of the agency, regionalisation and so on? Does she intend to work with small rural post offices, which are under threat at the moment, and encourage people to use their post office, etc.? That would be important because they are important in rural communities and many of them are under threat Every organisation should work to support them and ensure they remain in existence. Posts offices not only service the community but they have been part of the social fabric of society for a long time and the number that have closed over the past 20 years is regrettable. While only a few have closed over the past five or six years, we should encourage people to use them more.