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

This is a very simple issue. For me, the post office network is a hidden jewel. The question then is what we can do with modern technology to build this network so that it can provide a role. Post offices have private services with the banks but we can also look at State services as well as remote working and all of the discussion that entails in sustaining rural villages. Mr. Watt is correct on that and I have seen urban and rural post offices of reasonable scale that are under pressure. When I use the word “struggling” I am talking about the broader context but the rural post office is key, as is the urban one.