An Post ‘had money for PR, but not for staff’

AN POST spent at least €2m on external consultants last year while insisting it could not give staff overdue pay increases, an Oireachtas Committee heard yesterday.

It also emerged that former financial director Ronan Byrne a member of the management team that overestimated the company's profits by close to €50m two years ago has been on paid sick leave since the autumn of 2003.

Addressing the Oireachtas Communications Committee yesterday, An Post's chief executive Donal Curtin confirmed that Mr Byrne was still being paid.