Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 302: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of occasions on which he has met with An Post management and unions in the past six months; the subject matters discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34949/05]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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I have met with representatives of An Post management and the chairperson on a total of five occasions in the past six months. Furthermore, officials in my Department continue to meet management in the company on a regular basis.

I have also met with representatives of the main union in An Post twice, the Communications Workers Union, CWU, as well as representatives of the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, on a total of two occasions. I have listened with interest to the views of all parties concerned in regard to the future of the network. I emphasised to them the importance of an early start to the company's modernisation and that both sides must engage directly, within the parameters of the Labour Court recommendations on the collection and delivery, in order to resolve long standing and deep seated problems besetting the company.