Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The post office network will not be maintained unless the social welfare service is the key anchor tenant of the post offices, for the want of a better phrase. It was stated previously that the encouragement to use banks rather than post offices would be withdrawn. Will the Minister of State take this matter back to his Department and make the case for withdrawing these statements in the vast majority of new social welfare forms which encourage people to use banks instead of post offices? Will the Minister of State do that? When the small tranche of legislation that I will introduce to ensure a universal network of post offices materialises, will the Minister of State and his Department accept it?

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