Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 263: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if postal delivery staff are required to post unaddressed direct marketing material through letter boxes even if householders have displayed a "no junk mail please" sign or similar on the letter box; if there is any way in which a householder can avoid receiving such mail from An Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13240/05]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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An Post is statutorily obliged, under section 12 of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, to satisfy all reasonable demands for postal services throughout the State. The public receives a wide variety of mail from a number of sources, much of which could be regarded as unsolicited mail, including unaddressed mail material, which may be delivered by operators besides An Post. Individual post persons have no discretion in regard to the delivery or otherwise of individual items of mail.