Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion

1:00 pm

Ms Karen Murtagh:

Our minimum requirement is 8 Mbps on the new one, but not all schools will receive an 8 Mbps connection.

It depends on the location and what is available in the area. Some schools will have a lower than 8 Mbps connection. There are no satellite schools in the batch of 2,900 schools because we have secured contracts to move all schools off satellite, which will be done by the end of June. Those schools will not be in this batch of 2,900 schools because they will be on new connections, be it wireless or-----