Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I move amendment No. 38:

In page 36, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following subsection:

"(10) Postal service providers will be licensed only in circumstances where they are able to prove capability of providing an end to end service.".

I wanted to hear the Minister's views on this. People believe that bringing private operators into the service will mean handing them a letter that will then be delivered, but that is not quite what the Minister has in mind.

What I am proposing is that the operator should be able to show it can operate the service from start to finish, all the way through to total delivery, before it is given access to the system. I have tabled this amendment to hear the Minister's views.