Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. I will explain. First, I commend Ms O'Hora, who spearheaded this matter in the Department with her team. This unprecedented development was hard fought for.

This is the first time in the history of the State we have had State intervention in the post office network. A huge amount of work happened. I will give the Deputy a little background on the €10 million. There has been long-standing engagement with An Post on the viability of the network. There have been meetings between the Department and An Post over the last two months. I would say there have been two meetings per week on engagement around what a financial support package would look like, and especially the social value. We are all aware of the social value but it is about trying to get a-----