Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth

Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Michael Gillespie:

That would multiplied by maybe four of five now. The first issue is that the IT infrastructure is not there. That is a big problem. There has been a completes lack of investment in IT. The sum of €50 million over a three-year period is no enough to upgrade our schools to what we need now in terms of Wi-Fi. At the moment, parents are buying the devices for their kids. They are borrowing the money from credit unions for the devices. When the devices are brought to school, the Wi-Fi is not good enough. We take for granted that we can walk anywhere and the device connects to the cloud and we can download everything. We do not have that basic facility in most schools.

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