Broadband deficit - Service must be improved dramatically

INFORMATION technology was one of the centre planks of Ireland’s recent economic expansion and it will be central to any recovery.

Indeed, it is impossible to envisage a recovery of any substance unless we continually develop and deepen our IT and communications capabilities.

Without the great advances in electronic communications security and speed it would have been impossible to entice so many stellar financial service firms to the Irish Financial Services Centre, one of the jewels in the crown of modern Ireland.