Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A number of weeks ago the Taoiseach and I had a conversation about the situation in An Post. On that occasion he told me the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, his constituency colleague and friend, would make a statement to the House, which he did. During our conversation, and during the presentation of the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, to the Dáil, there was no mention of increasing the price of postage. This morning we heard the Minister, Deputy Naughten, is to bring forward proposals for legislation to increase the price of postage at the very time we are trying to save post office services. We all acknowledge there is a crisis and I have one simple question.

Has the Government decided to increase postage costs?

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