Mr. Robert O'Leary:

I have a 12 Mbps connection. I am doing quite well.

I will mention Finland again because Finland is often mentioned as the country to which we should aspire. It is the country that consistently scores well in the PISA scores to which we are compared. It is not a coincidence that when I visited there was a 100 Mbps connection in that school.

To develop the point about the PISA scores, in 2009 there was a huge hoo-ha in the media where the education system was castigated because our schools had fallen down the list of OECD countries. We improved again in 2012. Deputy Cannon mentioned the fundamental jump being made in countries in Southeast Asia, namely, Singapore, Shanghai, China, and South Korea. They are the countries that are making this fundamental, huge investment in their education systems.

If we look at the PISA scores we will see the countries that rank above Ireland. We are doing very well, relatively speaking. The only European country that consistently outperforms Irish schools in numeracy and literacy is Finland. The other countries above us - looking down on us - are those Southeast Asian countries, namely, Korea, Shanghai, China and Singapore where they have put in the investment.