Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I do not know if the Taoiseach knows the post office in The Square in Tallaght. It is extraordinarily busy whenever you go there, and it is more than just a post office. It is a community hub for many people, where workers are extremely helpful to those who are coming in, advising them on what to do and so on. Those workers, and those who use the service, are faced with that post office becoming what is known as a contract-run operation. In other words, it is effectively being privatised. The workers are not being given any say in the matter. They are being told that they can either go on working but not directly for An Post anymore or they can be redeployed elsewhere with no guarantee about where that would be in terms of how they are going to get to work, where they currently live and so on. There is no option of redundancy. The best thing here would be that these plans are withdrawn, that these people remain direct employees of An Post, and that the post office is not privatised. Would the Taoiseach agree?

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