asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will give a list of those Public Offices and Departments in the Saorstát to which the general public may forward their letters on official business through the post without affixing postage stamps.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - OFFICIAL BUSINESS LETTERS.
The regulation governing the sending of letters or other postal packets to Government Offices is published in Éoluidhe an Phuist, page 13. It is as follows:—
"As a general rule every letter or other postal packet addressed to an officer of the Government should be prepaid, just as if it were addressed to a private person.
"This rule is without exception, so far as parcels are in question; but as regards letters, provided they are upon the business of the State and addressed to a Minister or other high officer of the Government at his office in Dublin, they are delivered without prepayment and without surcharge. Any such letter which is not upon the business of the State but upon the private affairs of the sender, is liable to surcharge."
The regulation applies to all Government Offices and Departments without exception, and therefore it appears unnecessary to supply a list of them.