Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I felt I should come to the House and explain a few things to the Minister of Sate, such as cloud computing, which he discussed in an off-hand manner. I use cloud computing wherever I can get broadband. My problem is I live 16 miles from here and cannot get broadband. That is one difficulty we need to talk about. While the issues of mathematics, teaching and teachers' qualifications have been before the Government for ten years, the Minister of State has come to the House and told us he is looking at it now.

We can go through all the other issues mentioned in the Minister of State's speech. He discussed how advanced we are regarding renewables. Only 3% of our energy output comes from renewables. The Minister of State spent a lot of time telling us what we need to do about research and development. I will tell him about "scaling up research and development" in renewables. Last year, people in Galway and UCC who are working on wave energy were passed out in research and development by Scotland because they do not get the support from Government for the development of Wavebob and other initiatives. That is a reality.

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