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

There are 900 post offices in the network and they will all receive funding but on a pyramid basis. The aim of this funding is to help the post offices that are in most need. I do not want to see unnecessary post office closures and not because they lack viability for those reasons. Every community is afraid that the local post office might close so this week we have put in place an historic package to ensure that every postmaster now knows that if they want to retire or step away then that is for their own personal reasons.