James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in providing all primary and post-primary schools in counties Longford and Westmeath with high-speed broadband; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38202/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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All post primary schools will be connected with 100Mbit/s by the end of 2014.

Primary schools are connected under a framework that has been in place since 2012, as a result of this framework the number of service providers to the Schools Broadband Programme for schools has been increased from 6 to 14 and this has led to a greater availability of improved services being made available for schools, most of the new providers are small wireless operators.

In Longford and Westmeath there are currently 39 schools connected using fixed wireless services and 74 connected using fixed line services. Two schools are connected using satellite however these two schools have been awarded to a different provider and are awaiting installation of fixed wireless connections.