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

In fairness, Chairman, you dealt with some of the questions around the PSO. It needs to be part of the conversation.

We also probably need to have a conversation post the review, and when the details of the banking contracts are in play. Then we will have a better general conversation on that.

Given the opportunity, I thank Ms Byrne and Mr. McRedmond and I thank the post office network. Like many other elected representatives, I sometimes have to deal with individual issues. One I had to deal with was particularly tragic and, in fairness, the communication and the answers back from An Post were excellent and I was able to deal with some of the specifics of those issues. I thank them for that service.

There are significant questions to be answers regarding viability but, in fairness to Mr. McRedmond and Ms Byrne, some of that one will only be able to do at a later stage. We are probably talking about September or so, when we see the outworkings of both the review and the contracts with the banking institutions and we see if there are any more State services on offer.