Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

——will be connected by April 2010. There are a range of State initiatives that have been made in terms of the MANs, the schools programme and national broadband scheme. We have not finished there, we have given a commitment in the new programme for Government to bring that high speed system to every secondary school by 2012.

We will continue to evolve the MANs system because it is starting to work. It is a long-term investment that will take time to light up but it is the right investment. We are seeing that as more and more companies start to use it.

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