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

It is about providing the services the public will use and are interested in using so they will want to go to the post office. An Post has a strong role in that. It is focused on the modernisation of the network. It has done a significant amount of work over the past number of years on turning it around. This is a very important and pivotal moment for the post office network. It is down to the company, An Post, working with postmasters and the Government to identify services, especially banking. Let us be innovative and creative. This is the time to do it but fundamentally this is a commercial entity and a semi-State body. It is up to An Post, working with the IPU and the Government, to identify services that will make the network attractive for people to use.