Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will the Taoiseach or the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, confirm that the chief executive officer of An Post has written to the Government? His letter clearly states that without Government contracts and State payments going through An Post, the network will collapse in its entirety within the next three years, and every post office will be lost. Will the Taoiseach confirm that this letter has been received and explain the Government's response, remembering that there is a clear commitment in the programme for Government to try to protect the remaining post offices in the network? This is the first time that the CEO has written such a letter. I am delighted that he has done so and acknowledged the problem we are facing.

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