diff --git a/app/service/rest.py b/app/service/rest.py
index 070f13457..9ae507adb 100644
--- a/app/service/rest.py
+++ b/app/service/rest.py
@@ -453,16 +453,16 @@ def get_all_notifications_for_service(service_id):
         data = notifications_filter_schema.load(MultiDict(request.get_json()))
         current_app.logger.debug(f"use POST, request {request.get_json()} data {data}")
 
-    if data.get("to"):
-        notification_type = (
-            data.get("template_type")[0] if data.get("template_type") else None
-        )
-        return search_for_notification_by_to_field(
-            service_id=service_id,
-            search_term=data["to"],
-            statuses=data.get("status"),
-            notification_type=notification_type,
-        )
+    # if data.get("to"):
+    #     notification_type = (
+    #         data.get("template_type")[0] if data.get("template_type") else None
+    #     )
+    #     return search_for_notification_by_to_field(
+    #         service_id=service_id,
+    #         search_term=data["to"],
+    #         statuses=data.get("status"),
+    #         notification_type=notification_type,
+    #     )
     page = data["page"] if "page" in data else 1
     page_size = (
         data["page_size"]
@@ -583,51 +583,51 @@ def get_notification_for_service(service_id, notification_id):
     )
 
 
-def search_for_notification_by_to_field(
-    service_id, search_term, statuses, notification_type
-):
-    results = notifications_dao.dao_get_notifications_by_recipient_or_reference(
-        service_id=service_id,
-        search_term=search_term,
-        statuses=statuses,
-        notification_type=notification_type,
-        page=1,
-        page_size=current_app.config["PAGE_SIZE"],
-    )
+# def search_for_notification_by_to_field(
+#     service_id, search_term, statuses, notification_type
+# ):
+#     results = notifications_dao.dao_get_notifications_by_recipient_or_reference(
+#         service_id=service_id,
+#         search_term=search_term,
+#         statuses=statuses,
+#         notification_type=notification_type,
+#         page=1,
+#         page_size=current_app.config["PAGE_SIZE"],
+#     )
 
-    # We try and get the next page of results to work out if we need provide a pagination link to the next page
-    # in our response. Note, this was previously be done by having
-    # notifications_dao.dao_get_notifications_by_recipient_or_reference use count=False when calling
-    # Flask-Sqlalchemys `paginate'. But instead we now use this way because it is much more performant for
-    # services with many results (unlike using Flask SqlAlchemy `paginate` with `count=True`, this approach
-    # doesn't do an additional query to count all the results of which there could be millions but instead only
-    # asks for a single extra page of results).
-    next_page_of_pagination = notifications_dao.dao_get_notifications_by_recipient_or_reference(
-        service_id=service_id,
-        search_term=search_term,
-        statuses=statuses,
-        notification_type=notification_type,
-        page=2,
-        page_size=current_app.config["PAGE_SIZE"],
-        error_out=False,  # False so that if there are no results, it doesn't end in aborting with a 404
-    )
+#     # We try and get the next page of results to work out if we need provide a pagination link to the next page
+#     # in our response. Note, this was previously be done by having
+#     # notifications_dao.dao_get_notifications_by_recipient_or_reference use count=False when calling
+#     # Flask-Sqlalchemys `paginate'. But instead we now use this way because it is much more performant for
+#     # services with many results (unlike using Flask SqlAlchemy `paginate` with `count=True`, this approach
+#     # doesn't do an additional query to count all the results of which there could be millions but instead only
+#     # asks for a single extra page of results).
+#     next_page_of_pagination = notifications_dao.dao_get_notifications_by_recipient_or_reference(
+#         service_id=service_id,
+#         search_term=search_term,
+#         statuses=statuses,
+#         notification_type=notification_type,
+#         page=2,
+#         page_size=current_app.config["PAGE_SIZE"],
+#         error_out=False,  # False so that if there are no results, it doesn't end in aborting with a 404
+#     )
 
-    return (
-        jsonify(
-            notifications=notification_with_template_schema.dump(
-                results.items, many=True
-            ),
-            links=get_prev_next_pagination_links(
-                1,
-                len(next_page_of_pagination.items),
-                ".get_all_notifications_for_service",
-                statuses=statuses,
-                notification_type=notification_type,
-                service_id=service_id,
-            ),
-        ),
-        200,
-    )
+#     return (
+#         jsonify(
+#             notifications=notification_with_template_schema.dump(
+#                 results.items, many=True
+#             ),
+#             links=get_prev_next_pagination_links(
+#                 1,
+#                 len(next_page_of_pagination.items),
+#                 ".get_all_notifications_for_service",
+#                 statuses=statuses,
+#                 notification_type=notification_type,
+#                 service_id=service_id,
+#             ),
+#         ),
+#         200,
+#     )
 
 
 @service_blueprint.route("/<uuid:service_id>/notifications/monthly", methods=["GET"])