Technological Universities
Dail Éireann — 2020-09-09
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Marian Harkin (IND), Sligo-Leitrim

I spoke to the Minister earlier on this. I believe that the Connacht-Ulster alliance is on target to reach the qualifying metrics. I have two brief points. Extra intake of students means the metrics will change slightly with higher numbers required. The Minister might take this into consideration because it could happen that by the tiniest margin some colleges might not reach the qualifying metrics. There are three colleges - and I earnestly hope all three will reach the criteria as it would be brilliant for the region - but if it were to happen that only two reached the qualifying metrics this year, I hope those two colleges could go ahead and the third could join at an appropriate time.

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Sitting date: 2020-09-09