Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Page 48 of the programme for Government concerns rural post offices. Athea post office in County Limerick serves 400 to 500 people. It is approximately 13 km from the nearest post office. I would like to propose a solution. I have asked the Government to impress on An Post that a post-and-pay point should be established as well as a post point. This could provide international mail and weight mail services, as opposed to just TV licences and stamps. This is a solution that could be brought forward for any post offices that are in this kind of halfway house, post offices which are quite commercially viable. I ask the appropriate Minister to put pressure on An Post in regard to this.

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