Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will give further consideration to a submission by a union (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50001/21]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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An Post is a commercial semi-state company. The Government remains fully committed to a sustainable An Post and post office network as a key component of the economic and social infrastructure throughout Ireland. In this regard the Government continues to provide significant business to An Post through the Department of Social Protection’s Social Welfare contract and the National Treasury Management Agency business. Government efforts have been focussed on supporting An Post in the roll out of new services and the delivery of its strategic plan.The Inter-Departmental Group, co-chaired by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, was established to, inter alia, examine the feasibility of additional Government services being provided through to An Post and the post office network.  The work of the group is at an advanced stage and the report will be submitted to Government in the near future.  The submission made to the group by the organisation referred to by the Deputy will help inform its work.