Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Fianna Fáil spokesperson, Deputy Ó Cuív, described maintaining all of the post office network throughout the country as "tommyrot". He is on the record here as saying "tommyrot" to anyone who thinks we can save every post office throughout the country.

My objective has been to make as many of those post offices as viable as possible. The Deputy said that we should put taxpayers' money into a post office which conducts 12 transactions a week and where the local community, for one reason or another, does not support it. He knows as well as I do, in his heart and soul, that some local communities bypass their local post office and go elsewhere. If a community is not prepared to support or use its post office, the Deputy wants the State to step in and support it.

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