Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, has clear responsibility for An Post. That has been confirmed this week in government but that does not mean that other useful work is not being undertaken to strengthen our post office network. The Minister of State, Deputy Ring, undertook work to look at models that could be developed that would help to bolster the long-term future of the post office network. He has come forward with proposals and I understand that he is supporting the possibility of pilot schemes to test some of the approaches. A lot of work is being done to try to protect the post office network. The issue cannot be solved simply within the narrow remit of the post. It is also about finding new services that can be transmitted, across all of Government, through the postal network. Those models have to be tested within the context of the oversight of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment of the specific operations of An Post.

See this speech in context