Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Post Office Closures: An Post

Mr. Garrett Bridgeman:

Sustainability is not just about electric vehicles and vans. The first electric truck is coming on stream and I want it to be made available in Ireland first. Trucks that run on biomass do not have zero emissions, only lower emissions, while our aspirations are for zero emissions. We will be the first company in Ireland to operate electric trucks. Solar panels are being put onto the roofs of all our delivery offices and post offices and we are rolling out a programme in the next 12 months in which we will install electric charging points for customers to use outside post offices. We have huge plans but we also focus on the small things, such as encouraging people not to print things off that they do not need, and this is happening throughout the organisation.