Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of recommendations from the 2016 Kerr Report that have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12907/22]

Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government considered the final report of the Post Office Network Business Development Group recommendations to utilise the post office network for the provision of driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12908/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Decisions relating to the provision of driving licences come under the remit of the Department of Transport. The tendering process for the provision of driving licences is a matter for that Department.The Government is committed to a sustainable An Post and Post Office Network. An Post provides important services to its customers and key Government services to citizens, including through contracts with the Department of Social Protection and the National Treasury Management Agency.

The work of the Interdepartmental Group, which was established to, inter alia, examine the feasibility of additional Government services being contracted through An Post and the Post Office Network is being considered by Minister Naughton and its report will be submitted to Government in due course.