Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think Mr. Carr's people had the numbers with them.

An experience I have had, in a constituency which is on both sides of the Border - that of graduates of Trinity College Dublin - is that the Northern Ireland address codes are an extra nuisance. I know where a man lives in Clones, but I will be asking what the seven-digit code for Newtownbutler is, when it is only six or seven miles down the road.

The problem with the post is that the volumes are falling so rapidly. I understand that the technology knows perfectly well, without numbers, that Belmullet is in Mayo and Bandon is in Cork. It is doing that job already without the addition of the seven digits. The people I admire are the postmen, who achieve the figure of 98% delivery every day they are at work. What is this supposed to be doing, and what do we get for the €27 million? I cannot see that, after all the evidence to which the Chairman referred.