Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As I have said, I have asked for the forms to be reassessed. These forms are reviewed, designed and updated all the time, and I have asked for that to be done.

There is a wider point. We should move to a standard bank account for people who currently do not have a bank account. There are so many transactions nowadays in society - not necessarily to do with social welfare, it applies in other areas as well - that the availability of a standard bank account from a local post office would be a great boon to the post office and a great boon to doing business in rural and urban areas where there are post offices.

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