Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 975: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 20 June 2006, if he has received a report from An Post on the pilot project to automate a selected number of non-automated offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1395/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The matter of the automation of post offices is, in the first instance, an operational matter for the Board and management of An Post and one in which I have no statutory function.

I have received no report to date on the pilot automation project. However, I understand that a review of the data and an assessment of the impact of the trial at the offices concerned is currently under way, focussing on the various factors such as additional costs of automation, additional levels of business and revenues generated, as well as displacement of business. I have been informed that the results of the project will be available early this year.