Mr. Gerard Diver:

It would be hard to over-emphasise the potential impact that could have in rural Ireland where we are losing people. People are migrating to centres of population because that is where the broadband coverage is and the job opportunities. In areas such as Sweden and Finland people can live in very remote areas and still work in high tech jobs for Nokia or Microsoft and do exactly what the Senator said earlier about sending large files to their employer or having a conference or a Skype call to somebody in China or Japan. This is something unseen but it could unlock many of the problems we are facing in Ireland, outside of the major centres of population, to reinvigorate those areas by the application of technology to overcome the peripherality and the problems we have had in the past.