asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will indicate the use to which the existing Pearse Street sorting office will be put when it becomes vacant on the completion of the new sorting offices.

A decision on this matter will not be taken for some time to come.

I heard that answer given in this House 30 years ago——

Not in this case.

Pearse Street Sorting Station—by the present Senator Boland.

They are consistent, anyway.

They are perfectly consistent.