141 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Education and Science the proposals he has to evaluate computer literacy in schools. [22946/01]

Government policy recognises the need to ensure that pupils in every school have the opportunity to become computer literate. In order to achieve this objective it is necessary to put into place the ICT infrastructure required; ensure that teachers have the appropriate ICT skills; and integrate ICT into the curriculum.

Since 1998 significant funding has been made available to schools in order to allow them to improve and develop their ICT infrastructure and a large-scale teacher training programme has been implemented.