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

An Post is pursing a privatisation agenda. Tallaght post office, along with five others, is on the chopping block. This will mean that one of the busiest post offices in the State will be closed down. The workers will be forcibly redeployed elsewhere and the community will be left with a much-reduced service in a smaller post office in a different location. I have raised this again and again in here but every time I get the same answer, which is that An Post has indicated that the change in business model will in no way alter the range or extent of the services offered by An Post in those locations. That is simply not true. I have it in writing from An Post that there is no guarantee of the same number of staff or counters. That means there will be reduced services. People are fed up. They have taken to the streets in Tallaght over this. They have signed petitions. Over 1,000 people petitioned to save Tallaght post office and save many of the others. Today they will be outside the Dáil. They want the Government to act and to instruct An Post to withdraw from this privatisation agenda.

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