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

My question relates to some of what was said earlier. It was pointed out to me previously that if one is talking about new services from the State, if anything requires tendering An Post would fail unless the tendering process was changed to a degree that would take into account the social and community work of post offices, to paraphrase what was said. Could Ms Bolger comment on that?

We will need a further interaction to get an update on the proposals and where we perceive changes can be made, whether that involves financial or Government services. The ongoing Government review of the future of the postal service is also relevant. If we cannot supply new services and the post office network does not provide a business model that works, we are into a PSO. We all accept the necessity of keeping the post office network up and running.