Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and it is what they have always done. Losing a post office in a local community is very distressing. Money claimed locally is spent locally. Maybe in 30 or 40-years’ time that whole generation will have passed on and post offices will not be as important. Yet, as Minister of State with responsibility for older people, I can understand how important post offices are to the local community. I am saying that on a personal level.

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