Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A company in Tipperary called KB Sports is owned by Mr. Kieran Bergin and it has become involved with online trading and parcel delivery. It has 16 workers and is to employ 17 more. The company has a large number of deliveries to make as it is one of the top 50 online shippers in Ireland. It has hundreds or thousands of deliveries to make.

The company was informed by An Post out of the blue that the final shipping date for Christmas was 14 December. It was not made aware of that date beforehand. The company decided to go with An Post because it wanted to deal with local businesses. We salute all the fir an phoist agus mná poist for the work they do, but this is shocking. The company has committed to make deliveries all over world, including to clubs and families, but this cannot be done. There is going to be a huge breach of faith that will be very damaging to that wonderful new company that adapted to the lockdown to help people. This is very serious.

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