Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is the Department of arts.

Let nobody say that this is being shoved aside or into an alley way. We want more and more young people to learn from their elders and connect with their peers around the world through the Internet. Is that not why we need broadband in rural areas? It is so they can talk to schools in Auckland, Alaska or South America and ask students there about their music, games, food and dress and what they do. Is this not where the young Irish stand on a stage without peers? It is so we can stand with our young people and tell them they can more than compete with anything else the world has to offer.

This is why regional and rural affairs are and should be part of the artistic community. It is in there that the educational forces will give vent to those young people's imagination and inspiration. Long after we are all gone our way out of this House, that legacy will continue to flourish - "full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air".

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