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

This Saturday will see an important protest in Tallaght to save the post office at The Square. There are similar campaigns to save post offices in Phibsborough, Rathmines, Roscommon, New Ross and Tipperary. These are the post offices next up for privatisation by An Post. In the case of Tallaght that means the current post office will close and a new post office will open at a different location but will be smaller, have fewer staff and counters and will offer fewer services. The workers are being treated abysmally. After that, once it is privatised, it could go entirely, as did Rathfarnham post office recently, Templeogue post office and hundreds of other privatised post offices over the past five years. This privatisation agenda needs to stop for the good of communities who need their local post services and for the good of the workers. Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister to meet the CEO of An Post and express the Government's opposition to this privatisation agenda and ask for it to stop?

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