Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló chun déileáil leis an ghné ríthábhachtach seo: the urgent need for the Government to abandon its plans to liberalise postal services because such a move would threaten the viability of the postal service itself and 10,000 jobs, as evidenced in Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, which demonstrated that liberalisation in this field results in the erosion of service levels, job losses and social dumping, including the proliferation of insecure low paid employment, and because such a move would also threaten the existing universal service obligation operated by An Post, which ensures equal access to postal deliveries at a single price regardless of geographic location.

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