Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My next question is about pensioners. I received an email during the week in advance of this meeting and it is from an An Post pensioner. He was explaining that over the years there have been different iterations of postal delivery and services in Ireland. He and many of his colleagues migrated across from the then Department of Posts and Telegraphs. To all intents and purposes, they were civil servants who migrated across to An Post over the years as employees. He said that there was a pension issue that those ex-civil servants continue to have. Is the board watchful of this or is much being done at board level for them? To illustrate the problem, the email stated that many pensioners from the lower grades are now on less income than the State pension for a couple and that is after 30 or 40 years direct service to the State. Has the board had eyes on this situation?