Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

The Viability of and Opportunities for the Post Office Network: An Post

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

I welcome that conversation. It needs to happen. Whatever services can be provided should be, as well as the stuff that is happening with the one-stop shops and green hubs and so on. An issue that has been put to me is that there needs to be an element of audit, whether by the Labour Court or otherwise, on the rates of pay in post offices. We are talking about sustainability. Some transactions are being conducted multiple times but the postmasters get very little money for them. Can that be looked at and renegotiated from a point of view of delivering a sustainable service? Does Mr. McRedmond have a number as regards the closures we could be looking at in the long term, on the basis of how things are and the criteria as set out?

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