Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Mulvey here this afternoon and I thank him for his opening statement and presentation. Before we discuss An Post matters, I thank him as he has engaged in different processes arising from committee work we have undertaken, particularly with regard to the Irish Coast Guard so I thank them for that as well.

I have perhaps five or six points I wish to raise. I will go through them quickly and perhaps we might have a little exchange on some of these. One of the points that postmasters would make to me is that they are very eager to have an expanded range of services provided in order that they can sell foreign currency but they cannot buy foreign currency in. That is quite problematic. If one takes west of Ireland towns, which have a huge influx of tourists over the summer, that old traditional foreign exchange service does not exist but some form of it exists in a post office. While I acknowledge that many people are using Revolut, cards, phones and digital payments, there is still a need for foreign exchange. They can sell currency but they cannot buy. They are wondering if An Post would consider this because this would just be an overhaul of that function?

Would it also consider an expansion of State services, including the completion of State forms?