The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (Irish: Aire Puist agus Telegrafa; sometimes called the P&T or stylised the 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 was abolished.The office of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs was created in the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924, which reorganised the Irish system of government.