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:

It would not even be answering that question. They would just say those would be options. That would be done without any analysis of the network. One consideration in the decision on Cork was staff welfare, which is the redeployment capacity in an area, which was greater in the Cork area. The second was the operational feasibility or customer service, for example, whether we could guarantee next-day delivery. We could not do that if we decided to close Athlone because we could not guarantee next-day delivery to parts of Donegal. The third consideration was on the financial criteria, which were strongest in respect of Cork. The decision was made on those three grounds.