Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a considerable weight on my shoulders as I must carry the can for my two colleagues, Deputies Pringle and Durkan, who tabled the other questions in this group.

As the Minister indicated in reply to a previous question, An Post's greatest asset is its local post office network. The difficulty is that the company views its local network as a cost rather than an asset. The Government is not giving serious consideration to how this asset could be sweated to bring services to communities as opposed to centralising them. I ask the Minister to comment.

As I have already heard the Minister's previous comments, there is probably no point in him reading them into the record again.

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