Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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1699. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he has taken with the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Finance to ensure that repayments from the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Protection enable funds to be transferred to An Post accounts. [26050/16]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The mechanisms for disbursing repayments from the Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners are a matter for those organisations.

A Final Report of the Post Office Network Business Development Group was published in January this year.  The Report clearly sets out the challenges that An Post and Postmasters face as they ensure that the network remains relevant in the context of an inexorable shift in consumer preferences, including the trend towards digital transactions.  Implementation of the reports recommendations, including the introduction of a basic payment account, is the responsibility of the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.