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

That will be worked out with An Post, working with the Irish Postmasters' Union, IPU, on a pyramid basis. We will be targeting those post offices that are most in need of support. There will also be incentives built into that and this will then be approved by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The key aim here is to prevent closures of our existing post office network and that is what this funding is doing.