Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is the survival of the fittest. It is like a squid game of the post office network. One will survive while another across the road will fall. There is a requirement for everyone to live within a 15 km radius of a post office, which might not sound like anything to someone in an urban constituency such as Dublin but in Clare, the situation on the ground is that if someone who is pushing on in years becomes unwell, they contact An Post and hand back the contract. I know of someone whose son was unwell. Those very sensitive issues become the catalyst for an overall post office closure. That is how it is happening on the ground and the situation does not look very transformational to us.