Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact An Post is considering a model that ensures struggling post offices can survive. I took a very crude measure based on 833 postmasters, which works about at about €12,000 per post office but a higher proportion of the fund would be skewed towards the post offices that are struggling. As a Deputy based in Limerick city, I deal with post offices, both urban and rural, and many of them are under severe pressure. There is great support for them on the ground.

Evolving to the services provided by the post offices, An Post is delivering a Government service in terms of disbursing social welfare payments. When the driving licence contract came up, An Post did not tender for it. Does Ms Byrne know the reason for that?