Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 497: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding will be provided to re-equip the information technology facilities in a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the great work it has achieved with Internet based collaborative projects, its use of multimedia and its web site. [41561/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

As the Deputy will be aware, the two major investment priorities under the ICT in Schools Programme over the past two years have been the provision of grant aid to schools to develop their computer networks and the establishment of the Schools Broadband Network and the provision of broadband access to schools. In this context, the school concerned received a networking grant of €2,200 in December 2004 and has had its broadband connectivity installed.

I am aware of the benefits that good use of ICT can bring to our children's education and I am conscious of the need for further investment to realise the full potential of integrating ICT into teaching and learning and I intend to publish a comprehensive new ICT strategy in 2007 covering the period of the new National Development Plan to 2013.