Post offices and tourism
The Leader supports expanded post-office services, including driving licences, and agrees that tourism outside Dublin needs attention; Senators endorse his response.
Senators Michelle Mulherin and Paddy Burke are right to raise the issue of post offices and to refer in that context to the Kerr report. I agree fully with Senator Paddy Burke that we should be creative in the way we use post offices. I see nothing wrong with his proposal that they be able to issue driving licences It is a very good suggestion.
Senators Paul Coghlan and Martin Conway referred to tourism and in that context what was happening beyond the Pale. I concur with them on the issue of VAT. I stated in the House last week that we had a very good tourism product, the proof of which was provided in the fine programme on the Wild Atlantic Way shown on RTE last Sunday night. The programme was the essence of public service broadcasting.
We should all commend John Creedon and the production crew for the way in which they sold Ireland.
