Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)

We are all familiar with the Goodbody report and the potential of cloud computing for employment creation. Will the Minister of State ensure the usefulness of cloud computing as a mechanism to reduce costs in the public sector is fully taken into account? The impact of cloud computing on e-learning in schools is very uneven and depends on the extent to which broadband has reached an area. Will the Minister of State ensure this is taken into account? Given that the programme for Government states it is a policy to make Ireland a world leader in cloud computing, which is a very noble aspiration, can we get on with it as quickly as possible?

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