Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the postmasters who are present in the Gallery. I congratulate them on their level of organisation and I wish them well in their protest at 7 p.m. tomorrow outside the gates of Leinster House. The Communications Workers Union, CWU, supports the protest and has written to all its members and asked them to attend. It, therefore, will be a large protest and will also include people who support the post office network. I take this opportunity to state that I am a member of the CWU and that I have worked as a post office clerk since 1979. I must, therefore, declare an interest in that I hope I will have a job to return to in two or three years' time.

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