Written answers
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Post Office Network
Declan Breathnach (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider exploring the option of giving the post office service responsibility for the compilation of the electoral register and enumeration of census data to make the service more viable in view of the urgent crisis in the delivery of postal services; if he will include this in the list of extra tasks being considered for the post office network on foot of the report of the post office hub working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15634/17]
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The operation of the post office network is a day to day operational matter for the Board and management of An Post and not one in which I, as Minister, have a statutory function.
On foot of the reconfiguration of Government Departments last year, responsibility for the post office network transferred to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
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