Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 50: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of schools in Ireland that have 100Mb/s broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44977/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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78 post-primary schools were selected to receive 100Mbps broadband as part of a pilot project in June 2009. These schools have had the bandwidth installed and are actively using this connection. 78 schools represent approximately 11% of all post-primary schools in the country.

Government has committed to rolling out the project to all post-primary schools by the end of 2012. I am confident that my budget allocation for 2011 will allow for half of those remaining schools to be connected by the start of the next academic year. The provision of broadband to primary schools is administered by the Department of Education and Skills under the Broadband for Schools programme.