Fergal Browne (Fine Gael)

There is a strike in the postal service across the water and I believe there should be a strike here also except here it should be the consumers who go on strike. In Famine times a letter took one day to go from Dublin to Carlow whereas it can now take four to five days, if not a week. The postal service is in chaos all around the country. The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources should come to the House and explain why letters are going missing, are taking weeks to arrive in certain places and why it is cheaper for businesses to post letters abroad and send them back to Ireland.