Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to add my voice to the thanks given to the post office network for the excellent front-line work that has been done throughout the pandemic.

I want to hone in on something that was said. Obviously we are talking about closures because the IPU has told us that 200 post offices are in danger of closing. The Cathaoirleach, like many others, has dealt with the fact that the transformation will end and talked about the pandemic fund.

Let us deal with the revenue that post offices no longer receive from handling welfare and foreign exchange transactions, which have not occurred for more than a year. Will the fund give postmasters in each individual post office operation the same moneys that they would have received from the transformation payment?