Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

We welcome the promotion of cloud computing. It has the potential to make savings for businesses throughout the State. Businesses will connect to the cloud through broadband, and we are concerned that at present the State has three broadband speeds, namely, fast, medium and none. We have fallen to 57th place internationally with regard to broadband speeds. The movement towards cloud computing would be great but for the fact it will have the effect of excluding some businesses throughout the State which do not have proper coverage and they will be at a competitive disadvantage. What steps will the Government take to ensure there will be one broadband speed and that instead of being 57th we will be in the top ten internationally?

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