Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Post Office Closures: An Post

Mr. David McRedmond:

Bicycles are being replaced because postal operatives cannot deliver parcels on bicycles. We are virtually the last postal operator in Europe that still has bicycles and we need to replace them. This is why we are pushing electric vehicles so hard. Blanchardstown, being in the greater Dublin area, will have all electric vehicles from the end of 2020. There is probably just a timing issue on getting those electric vehicles. It is quite hard to order enough electric vehicles to get them in. That is all it is. We have committed from the end of 2020 to have only electric vehicles in the greater Dublin area.