Post Offices: Post offices are a local institution in hundreds of towns and villages throughout the country. Fine Gael has endeavoured to halt the rapid decline in our post office network which took place during the 2000s under Fianna Fail. We recognise that post offices face unprecedented challenges, in a climate of rapidly changing mail trends. We have just renewed the Department of Social Protection's contract for cash social welfare payments at post offices, which in 2015 was worth approximately €54m, with over 38 million social welfare payments being made in post offices throughout the country.
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