{"id":5552,"date":"2026-05-20T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:13:05","slug":"postal-sorting-office-relocation-unsuitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/postal-sorting-office-relocation-unsuitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal sorting office relocation \u2018unsuitable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the proposed plan to move the postal sorting offices out of Edmondstown and Tallaght are unsuitable and could create huge disruption for local residents. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe raised the issue at Topical Issues in the D\u00e1il this morning with the junior minister for postal policy Charlie McConalogue. <br \/><br \/>Speaking in the D\u00e1il this morning, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cWe know that An Post has a plan to relocate these sorting offices. It is not only Edmondstown. It is also talking about closing one in Tallaght and relocating the one in Churchtown, which is in Dublin 14. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThere is a demand in relation to the levels of parcels. It is at Christmas levels at the moment, and it is growing all the time. We accept that there needs to be efficiencies in relation to that, but the distance involved is considerable. Travelling from Rathfarnham to Lucan is not straightforward, particularly given chronic traffic congestion across south and west Dublin. <br \/><br \/>\u201cPublic transport options in Rathfarnham and Lucan are limited and indirect for many residents, particularly older people and those with disabilities or those without access to a car. Collecting missed deliveries would become extremely difficult. Many of the people who are impacted by this would have to go the M50 route with all the challenges that brings. <br \/><br \/>\u201cPart of the challenge is that we have not got the information from An Post of exactly what it is going to do and staff or local customers have not been informed either.<br \/><br \/>\u201cMy own experience is going into the Tallaght sorting office, and I have never gone in without other people being there. There are always queues there, which highlights the fact that it is being used. We are told that there is a plan in place. We do not know what the plan is so we are looking for information about that plan. <br \/><br \/>\u201cAt the end of the day, we need to know where the parcels will go, if they are not delivered to households. A lot of people living in apartments cannot get access to their parcels and so on. Where do they have to go? What is proposed in relation to the location in Lucan is unsuitable. We are looking for a compromise on that. There is also the issue of staff. Most of the staff live locally and are from the locality, whether it is Edmondstown, Tallaght or some of the other areas. Again, this will move people, create extra traffic and so on. What is being talked about is unsuitable.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the proposed plan to move the postal sorting offices out of Edmondstown and Tallaght are unsuitable and could create huge disruption for local residents. Teachta Crowe raised the issue at Topical Issues in the D\u00e1il this morning with the junior minister for postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}