Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 345: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline his preferred options for the future development of the postal services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17020/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The Government's core policy goal for the postal sector is to ensure that Irish customers, both business and residential, enjoy competitively priced, high quality postal services. Legislation is currently being drafted in my Department to transpose the third Postal Services Directive which mandates opening the postal market to full competition from 1 January, 2011 and to provide for a regulatory framework for a liberalised postal market. I expect to publish this Bill in the second half of the year. In designing the new regulatory framework, the key principles are the maintenance of universal postal services and the provision of competitively priced high quality postal services to both business and residential customers.