Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 425: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent to which he has conveyed the policy of his Department or the Government to An Post with particular reference to the future of the postal service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11620/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The Government's policy with regard to the future of the postal service, as set out in my Department's statement of strategy, has three principal aims:

To ensure Irish industry and domestic customers enjoy competitively priced, high-quality postal services.

To maintain a nationwide postal service and viable network, with uniform tariffs applying throughout the State.

To develop the postal service in such a way that it will underpin Ireland's key economic objectives.

These issues, particularly ensuring Irish consumers have access to a broad suite of high quality postal services and the maintenance of the universal service obligation, are of key importance to Ireland in the context of the future liberalisation of the postal market, which is subject to political agreement at EU level.