Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will let Deputy Ó Cuív in in a moment. This comes back to the fundamental problem we have with the islands, that is, we have 14 Departments and we progress at the slowest rate of any Department. The reality is the only reason our second level schools have high-speed Internet connections is the Department with responsibility for communications funded that, yet even when that was done we still did not see the Department of Education come up to the mark and meet that investment halfway. The students on the islands are losing out as a result of that and the students in small rural secondary schools throughout the country are losing out on subject choice, and that is wrong.