Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

Connectivity for second level schools in all of those locations is 100 Mbps per second. They have been provided with that connectivity. The difficulty is that a student in a second level school in some of those locations, even if remote, will have access to broadband but he or she might have that access at home. That is the challenge that the national broadband strategy brings in terms of where we need to focus.