Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with previous speakers. We are so lucky to have our post offices, particularly in rural Ireland, because they play a significant role in that area where people are able to meet and the services and postmasters are excellent. However, we need to make sure we keeping adding on extras, be they banking facilities or something else. I am a firm believer that people should be able to tax their cars there. Local authorities are going online, and while that is fine for some, there are only a few hours a day where people can go into local authorities and tax their car. Do we need to look at putting that in our post offices? The post office can give us a wide range of services. We need to support post offices in rural Ireland and give them every advantage we can to make sure they can provide as many services as we need.

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