Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment is currently working on a response to that report and a separate study carried out by An Post regarding its viability. Certainly, the Government acknowledges the important service provided by post offices around the country. We wish to retain as much of the post office network as possible and to find new business for the post offices. However, we acknowledge that increasingly services are going online and that as more people have access to high speed broadband fewer of them will use the post office in the way they did in the past. That will require the post offices to find new business.

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