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Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (5 May 2011)

Richard Bruton: ..., getting our cost base right, helping businesses to be more innovative and to win new markets, and developing strategies to capitalise on Ireland's potential in key sectors such as lifesciences, cloud computing, the digital gaming industry, the green economy and the international education sector. As outlined in the Programme for Government, the Government will also implement a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Feb 2021)

Norma Foley: ..., as a lump sum based on the school enrolment. ICT grant circulars have been published to accompany each year of the grant issue, outlining to schools how this funding should be used and gives examples of the kinds of ICT equipment such as the purchase of teaching computers, student shared computers, projectors, networking equipment, cloud based tools, learning platforms, software and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (12 Oct 2023)

Simon Coveney: ..., engaging with the individual enterprises. IDA Ireland continues to see a flow of business and in the last year has announced several new investments in microelectronics and semiconductors, in cloud computing, and in data storage. It is important to note that technology company commitment to Ireland remains exceptionally strong and Ireland remains an attractive location of choice for...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 Mar 2008)

Eamon Ryan: ...of faster and cheaper broadband products will be an important part of that change. An advantage may also come to those countries which adapt their telecoms infrastructure to the fast changing computer and media industries. These industries are evolving rapidly as new network formats such as "cloud computing" and new mobile platforms become available. While bandwidth speed is important...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (17 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...,000 2019 Research & Development €249,993 2019 Training €96,654 TOTAL €4,047,964 VMWare is a leading virtualisation and cloud computing software and services company, which first established in Ballincollig in 2005, following its acquisition by EMC. In May...

Job Creation (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Bruton: ...innovative sectors such as medical devices, ICT and the pharmaceutical and financial sectors which continue to perform well. Ireland is well placed to exploit opportunities in new sectors such as cloud computing and digital gaming, life sciences and clean-tech industries. We are building on investments made in the research and development capability of our higher education institutes...

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Dara Calleary: ...sector has been able to get approval and provide courses in the shortest timeframe in response to the demands of employers. That is the reason it provides courses in information technology such as cloud computing and ethical hacking. I too acknowledge the work done by the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, in CoderDojo, but there is no sense in training and inspiring a whole generation of...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Áine Collins: ...for multinational companies. To that end, I welcome the Government's decision to work with EMC, a large multinational company from my own constituency of Cork North-West. EMC launched a cloud computing initiative earlier this week which will use the Government network as a test bed for cloud technology. Cloud computing will contribute significantly to making it easier and cheaper to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Review (10 Oct 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...to maximise the positive impact of ICT and eGovernment on public service modernisation and customer service. Following on from the eGovernment Strategy, the Government published, in July, its Cloud Computing Strategy for the Public Service. Cloud computing is a radically new approach to the delivery of ICT services. Accordingly, it is a significant reform of how we design, develop,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cyber Security Policy (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...telecommunications sectors. In addition to critical national infrastructure, the Directive also requires that States apply a new regulatory regime to Digital Service Providers (DSPs). These will include cloud computing providers, search engines providers and providers of online market places. Critically, the State will have responsibility for dealing with the security of...

Skills Shortages (19 Jul 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Ruairi Quinn: ...difficulties. The skills needs of the ICT sector are not uniform and are continually evolving. A key issue that has been identified is a shortage in the domestic supply of honours degree level computing and electronic engineering graduates. This stems from the fall-off in demand from students for ICT related programmes following the dotcom collapse, allied with the significant recent...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: ...the programme, including €92m in ICT Infrastructure Grant funding between November 2009 and December 2010. The main priority under this scheme was the equipping of each classroom with a teaching computer and digital projector. Once the baseline is in place schools can allocate any remaining funding under the scheme to other ICT equipment and software for educational use. A number of key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Colm Burke: ...in contact with me recently to outline the system being introduced in the United States, which does not necessarily require the presence of a dentist. A dental nurse is in attendance and scanning and cloud computing are used, with the data being transmitted to a centre to be reviewed by qualified dental practitioners, who can then identify which cases need to be followed up. It is about...

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

...of the second call of the innovation fund for Ireland, the development capital funds, support for a record number of high-potential start-ups, the establishment of technology centres such as in cloud computing and support for more than 200 significant company projects involving investments of more than €500,000. Enterprise Ireland delivered in full and on time the vast majority of...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (26 Jun 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...and customer service. For example, since its establishment, the Council has assisted with the development of the new eGovernment Strategy which I published in April and with the development of a Cloud Computing Strategy which I hope to bring to Government in the coming weeks. The Council may also establish working groups to research and/or develop proposals/recommendations for specific...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Aindrias Moynihan: ...thousands of people across rural Cork desperately in need of high-speed broadband. Last night I met with people in Ballinora which overlooks Cork city and is adjacent to EMC, one of the largest cloud computing companies in the world. However, they struggle to get an Internet connection or even a mobile phone connection. It is the same in places like Ballinageary, Ballinagree,...

School Curriculum (3 May 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...and the trade union movement have an opportunity to demonstrate that science and technology offer many job opportunities. In Limerick, for example, we have had job announcements in areas such as cloud computing. Unless we provide the appropriate educational infrastructure at primary, secondary and tertiary level, we will not be in a position to benefit from job opportunities in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

...companies invest significant amounts of money here. To date, €7 billion or €8 billion has gone into the data centres, which then spurs on other things. Many of the data centres will in time become computational centres. In other words, the running of algorithms and stuff like that will take place in the centres. Will that be more energy intensive? Yes. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Mismatch between Industry Requirements and Third Level Courses: Discussion (20 Nov 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

...example of some of the improvements that have been made since we last met the committee, involving my own institution, Cork Institute of Technology. In 2011, CIT initiated the first masters degree in cloud computing in the world and we have just produced our first 65 graduates in that discipline. The success of this programme has meant that it is oversubscribed both nationally and...

Written Answers — Public Service Contracts: Public Service Contracts (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: ...and Westmeath) C&M Construction Kerbing etc at Coole Park Nature Reserve Crann Iorrais Teo., Carne, Belmullet, Co. Mayo Rhododendron Clearance Contract Killarney National Park 2006 Phase 3 Dell Computer Corporation Supply of PCs Dell Computer Corporation Supply of Laptop Computers Dell Computer Corporation Supply of lightweight laptop computers Denber Forestry Services Ltd....