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- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----can be made as simple as possible.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is actually being done at the moment.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: As a postmaster, Deputy Troy seems to be taking an attitude whereby he does not want people who have bank accounts to actually-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----be able to use their bank account.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: He wants them, because he is a business owner in a post office,-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: ------to only be allowed to queue up at the post office.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is not right, Deputy Troy.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: One actually has to provide a bank account system that the post offices can use.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: As a postmaster, Deputy Troy will have to co-operate with that.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: As a postmaster, Deputy Troy is going to have to co-operate.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: When I spoke this morning in Dublin Castle to a very wide group of people from the trade union movement, from the business movement and from the voluntary and advocacy organisations in Ireland, big and small, I talked about a future that we would all put together for Ireland that would give us a good outlook for people who were older and retired, for younger people and for families with...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It is not; it is twice that amount.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I am aware that quite a number of Deputies and their families have an interest in post offices. I hope any Member who has a direct commercial interest in a post office will actually let us know.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Is the Deputy also a postmaster?
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I am just asking in the interests of debate.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I asked because I am aware that Deputy Robert Troy has a long-standing interest in post offices.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I am just asking if there is a commercial interest.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: When Fianna Fáil was in government, it closed 197 post offices.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: In fairness, Deputy Robert Troy said many were voluntary decisions made by postmasters because, for instance, a family member was retiring and no one else wanted to take on the job. Of the 25 closures during the Government’s tenure, almost all have been for that exact reason. Like other Deputies, I, too, was involved in my constituency in efforts to recruit a new postmaster or...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: The figure is €50 million and it is higher when other departmental services supplied through the post office network are taken into account. To suggest it is half that figure is pretty poor counting by somebody involved in the post office network. That is why I asked Deputy Robert Troy if he had a personal awareness and familiarity with the post office system. I would have expected...