Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Tom Fleming is well aware that the only people who can keep open the post offices are those who use them. Unfortunately, in many areas around the country, people prefer to go to the nearest town and do their business. It is a fact of life. I represent the county where this has happened on many occasions. From first-hand experience, I know that when a postmaster or postmistress comes to retirement age or no longer wants to do the job and where the families have no interest in it, if no one else from the local area is prepared to take on something that involves quite an amount of work for very little return-----

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