Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Let us focus on those issues. When the State is spoken about, one sometimes wonders whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. The Government has a strategy entitled Project Ireland 2040. Cork will be the fastest growing city in the country in the 2020s and 2030s and there will be a doubling of population by 2040. Was any account taken of that plan when An Post was making this decision to close the Cork mail centre?