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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I refer to the 873 franchised post offices. Some in my area are stand-alone operations. A person might walk into a post office and that is all it is; then others are located at the back of premises. In some cases, the husband runs the post office and the wife runs the shop, or vice versa. I wonder about the stand-alone post offices. The one on Merrion Row is flying because it is a very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Perhaps we should address the questions I asked and then the witnesses can come back in if they wish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Was that to stay or to retire?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: What does buying them out mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, I saw that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: How much of that €60 million was used to buy people out of their contracts? Was that all of the €60 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: And the rest?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Based on the fact that Covid-19 happened, was that quite an expensive exercise in the end?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The drop was bigger because of Covid-19 than it otherwise would have been. An Post, therefore, ended up having a bigger compensation figure than it would have been expected to pay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Of the 873 post offices, how many does Mr. Watt think will benefit? Is it 200 or 600 of the 873 post offices that are in need of these dispersal payments and likely to get significant supports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: It is approximately 450.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Who are they? How many of them are left?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Of the 873 post offices, one third are on the old contract. They did not take the buy-out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Are they all okay then? They do not need the same level of support.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Say, for the sake of argument, there are 900 post offices. If we take out the 300 that are on the S52 contract and 600 are left, how many of that 600 that have taken the buy-out and gone to the new contract does Mr. Watt think will need the support? Is it half of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The figure is 300.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I am just trying to get a handle on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Nobody can fully anticipate the future, but do our guests expect that in five or ten years, there will still be 920 post offices? Could that reduce to 600 post offices, for example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The ideal is to expand the cake.