Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

He is. He is very keen to advance this agenda and he will leave an impact on this area — of that I have no doubt. There are pluses and minuses. We have the strongest per capita subscriber growth in the OECD. We have added 6.6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants in the past year, which is far ahead of anybody else. We improved to 21st out of 32 countries as benchmarked by Forfás in June 2007. While we have moved up, we still have a significant journey to travel. Broadband access is an important issue for competitiveness.

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