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

The issue of printing was raised with me by postmasters who were identifying some of these services they could provide. That is a good idea and I will ask my officials to explore it with An Post.

The Deputy is right about the opportunities with the provision of banking through the post office network. The commercial contracts are negotiated by An Post and so it would need to be through that avenue. I believe representatives from An Post will appear before the committee this month. The Deputy should raise the transaction fees for banking with them. I agree that we need to look at more offline services and Government services. Motor tax, from the Department of Transport, is an area that needs to be fleshed out. I know the Deputy is saying that rather than waiting for all Departments to come forward, one service from one Department could be provided. However, I do not want us to lose track of the bigger picture of every Department working together on this. It should not be ad hocand piecemeal.

This has to be like a Town Centre First approach. We are looking at-----