Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 93: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his preferred options for the future development of the postal services with particular reference to the need for a nationwide comprehensive letter and parcel next day delivery service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11086/11]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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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. The Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill, which is due to be debated at Committee Stage in the Dáil shortly, sets out a robust regulatory framework for the postal services market which is open to competition since 1 January 2011 under the Third Postal Services Directive (EU Directive 2008/6/EC).

In designing the new regulatory framework, the key principles are the maintenance of universal postal services, the essential element of which is the five day collection and delivery of postal packets to every home and premises in the State, and the provision of competitively priced high quality postal services to both business and residential customers.