Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What the universities are saying is that we should do this. If I told this committee today that we were going to build purpose-built student accommodation in the regions, which we are, by the way, the Deputy's next comment would be that this would take a significant time, which would be fair to say because we do not have the designs or the planning permission yet. In the interim, we are going to provide a devolved grant and it will be up to each university to decide how best to spend that. That is where it currently lies.