Alison Comyn (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Byrne. I will now turn to An Post. I have been contacted by a number of regional and rural postmasters over the weekend, knowing that this debate was coming up. They call it a pay freeze, but we will not call it that. There has not been an increment increasing their wages from 2008 commensurate with the other increases that have arisen such as the cost of living and the cost of rent, etc., whereas the staff have perhaps had increases of as much as 50% over that time. Is that fair or acceptable for postmasters not to have had an increase since 2008?