Written answers
Tuesday, 30 May 2006
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Post Office Network
8:00 pm
Gerard Murphy (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 172: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has monitored the extent to which post offices have been downgraded or closed in the past four years; [20703/06]
John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I have no statutory function in relation to this matter. It is an operational issue for the Board and Management of An Post. The table outlines the information requested with regard to the closure and downgrading of post offices in the past four years.
| Post Office Closures and Conversions in the past four years | |||
| County | Office Closures | Conversions to Agents | Agent Closures |
| Carlow | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Cavan | 7 | 18 | 6 |
| Clare | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Cork | 9 | 31 | 12 |
| Donegal | 3 | 15 | 11 |
| Dublin | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| Galway | 7 | 10 | 3 |
| Kerry | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| Kildare | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Kilkenny | 5 | 12 | 1 |
| Laois | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| Limerick | 5 | 14 | 6 |
| Longford | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Louth | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Mayo | 12 | 26 | 9 |
| Meath | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Monaghan | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Offaly | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Roscommon | 7 | 12 | 2 |
| Sligo | 4 | 17 | 9 |
| Tipperary | 10 | 13 | 9 |
| Waterford | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Westmeath | 6 | 12 | 7 |
| Wexford | 8 | 12 | 3 |
| Wicklow | 3 | 5 | 0 |
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