Dr. Katriona O'Sullivan:

I will say something controversial which I often do. What Deputy Clarke said about the influencers was very interesting. What I will put back to her is that everyone has a responsibility to sweep his or her side of the street. The bottom line is that the Government's role is to ensure the education system moves quicker and goes with the times. Rather than focusing on industry or influencers and their role, the Government should ensure that its role is working. Why is computer science not being offered in schools? It is not the choice of schools. The Deputy is not doing this. However, DEIS schools are not able to incorporate much of what is on offer from the Government because they are too busy caring for all the challenges that happening in their schools. This is not necessarily directed at the Deputy but influencers would change if society changed. There are top-down issues and bottom-up issues. The top-down issues need to be taken care of by the Government. We need to ensure that everyone has access to digital commodities. Every child should have a laptop. We should be providing that as a State, because we are in a tech revolution.