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Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. I am delighted to be here in the Convention Centre this morning to address you at the fifth Digital Ireland Forum. I’d like to start by thanking Silicon Republic for inviting me here again. Government is committed to ensuring...

Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, today announced he is making a further allocation of grants available for digital skills training under the BenefIT scheme...

10th April 2013 A total of 2,000 additional ICT graduates-level professionals will be provided in the coming year...

A total of 2,000 additional ICT graduates-level professionals will be provided in the coming year through the education system and the employment permits system, as part of a series of reforms aimed at making Ireland the internet capital of Europe...

Irish Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte, has welcomed the agreement reached under the Irish Presidency on the Re-use of Public Sector Information. Public Sector Information refers to the wide variety of information held by Public bodies...

Firstly, I’d like to thank you for the invitation to address you. The arrival of social media has presented us with a complex, exciting and multi-faceted sector, one which holds within it the potential to fundamentally change the world we inhabit...

A major drive to boost jobs and match young unemployed with large numbers of existing vacancies is behind a major new European initiative aimed at addressing the predicted 900,000 ICT vacancies by 2015, according to Minister for Jobs...

Addressing the ICT skills gap will be a crucial part of the EU’s employment strategy, given projections that there could be up to 700,000 unfilled vacancies in the EU by 2015, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., and Minister for Training & Skills, Ciarán Cannon T.D. today announced the start of the second phase of ICT graduate skills conversion programmes. Launching the 2013 programme, Minister Quinn...

The Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte T.D., today announced that the renowned film maker and committed digital enthusiast, David Puttnam, would take on the new role of Digital Champion for Ireland...