Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-12
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The publication of a strategic student accommodation approach or strategy is imminent. The Minister took it to the Cabinet subcommittee recently. It involves looking at the specific issue of how we can give capacity to the technological universities in particular to facilitate the development of student accommodation, either on the site that they may have, adjacent or wherever. The Minister has quite innovative approaches, which will draw on the need for the private sector to be involved. The scale of what is required will need private sector engagement and involvement. Again, we acknowledge that there has been a historic challenge to technological universities because they never had borrowing capacity. Mechanisms are being looked at between the Minister for higher education and the Minister for Finance in respect of that and good progress is being made. Along with the housing strategy in due course, and very quickly thereafter, there will be a strategy in terms of student accommodation also.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-12