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"This Government is giving ever increasing prioritisation to one of the most important and far reaching issues facing us all …

"This Government is giving ever increasing prioritisation to one of the most important and far reaching issues facing us all today - that is the utilisation of information and communication technologies in order to benefit Irish business, Irish competitiveness and indeed Irish society." - Minister for Science, Technology and Commerce Noel Treacy, speaking at the Launch of the Feasibility Study for the Distributed E-Commerce Support Centre Project in Galway.

News monitor column compiled by Patrick Logue.

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