James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely, and it would need to be regulated, but it is a matter of the challenges posed by parcel delivery services.

Sticking to the area of opportunities for An Post, as a politician, I am very familiar - too familiar sometimes - with having to disseminate literature and how to reach mass markets. It is one thing in a town in which there are many different houses side by side; it is in rural areas that one has to engage the postal service. It strikes me - again, I have noticed this acutely as a politician - that the cost of postage and stamps has soared in recent years. However, there may be opportunity in that as well because there are direct marketing opportunities. I think Post Plus and other services-----