Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On that last point, is that the nub of the problem? The public - an gnáth duine, the citizen, and all of us living in our communities - are not thinking about or using our post office network in sufficient numbers. How do we make the public - men, women and children - use it? I remember going to school when we had post office stamps, which helped us to save. We then had TSB Bank staff come into schools. Have we lost our way a little in terms of the public and the citizen? How do we attract them to come in? In fairness, the postmasters have been extraordinarily strong advocates of the post office network yet the people are voting with their feet, which is little unfair because the post office network is a fantastic service delivering a multiplicity of services, as we know.