Noel O'Flynn (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

I have just completed four years as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and during that period we engaged with the management of An Post, the trade unions, particularly, the Irish Postmasters Union, other stakeholders, customers, ComReg and the Minister. At one of our meetings I was horrified to learn that the then CEO had not interacted verbally with the CEO of the Communications Workers Union. I banged their heads together and informed them that if they did not speak to each other, progress would not be made.

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