Eamon Scanlon (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator Leyden's call to bring An Post and the Communications Workers Union together. The losers are the postmen and postwomen in rural Ireland and the people serviced by these workers. The British and French postal service are hovering like vultures, ready to cherry-pick the market in the greater urban areas. The major losers will be those who live on boreens throughout the country. As a gesture of goodwill, can An Post pay the Sustaining Progress increment to pensioners who have been waiting since 2001?