(For the comparable French agency, see Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones.) The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Irish: Aire Puist agus Telegrafa; sometimes called the P&T in English or P⁊T in Irish, and later stylised P+T) was a senior post in the government of the Irish Free State and Ireland from 1924 to 1984, when the post and the department were abolished. The Ministers and Secretaries Act, Section (1), Part (ix) defines the department's role: