Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is positive to hear. I was not so aware of some of it, such as the children's account and maybe the amount of current account business. It is good we have these kind of meetings. We can also let people know about them.

The brand is incredibly positive. People are so happy to put money into the post office knowing that it is the safest place in Ireland as far as they are concerned. Throughout the banking crisis and everything else, the people were putting their money in the post office knowing that it was safer than safe. The witnesses might touch on the negative interest rates that the banks are talking about applying and whether An Post has any proposals to do that or otherwise.

I would also make the point - this is something that I have been aware of for years as a councillor and maybe more recently - that with the leaflet-dropping service that every councillor and every local authority candidate in the country would want to have, particularly during local elections but even between elections, there never seemed to be a way to get An Post to have its delivery areas coincide with the electoral areas in the local authorities, with the electoral districts within those areas and even by Dáil constituencies. The post office was not necessarily aware of the boundaries. They would deliver but you would have leaflets from Dún Laoghaire arriving in Rathdown and vice versa. Might An Post manage to have a system that it could offer to candidates, councillors, TDs, aspiring TDs, etc., stating that it has the exact boundaries of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and it would deliver to every house because so many houses are "No junk mail" now? I certainly do not regard political literature as junk mail. People sometimes say they do not hear from you and when they get the stuff, they think it is junk mail.