Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have two more questions and my first question is on the new system. The distribution system is part of a very complex range of services. The village post office is the centre that provides a range of Government services, financial services, the Internet, parcel and other services, and also shipping stuff in and out in order that small businesses in the community have a good access point to the rest of the world. Small businesses can trade on the Internet and we are not just buying in everything from Manchester. In that world I imagine the one difficulty is deciding a role for the big central sorting office, particularly for letter post.