Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The figures I quoted were from a major international study. Those are not figures I have given, rather they have been cited by an outside group which noted that we had doubled our speeds, tripled our broadband penetration and that we were consistently going up the league table.

Second, in terms of jobs, last year in the depths of our recession, when the overall e-economy fell by 8% or 9 % , jobs in the ICT industry in this country went up 6%, which is 6% of 75,000 jobs. Therefore, we are achieving in terms of turning policy in this area into jobs. Last week I was in my area of Sandyford last week where the company Salesforce employed an extra 150 people. I can refer to other such companies.

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