Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is no proposal for a review by Eurostat or the CSO. The issue now is a policy matter for the Government as to how it wishes our technological universities to access resources to build student accommodation. One way could be to allow them access to the borrowing framework. That had been the traditional way the technological universities were expecting to go. At a very useful meeting with all of the presidents and chairs of the technological universities and the Taoiseach a couple of months ago, we said that we should not be prisoners to any one way of doing it and that we should find the quickest way to get building. Truthfully and logically, the next step is for the technological universities to submit proposals by the end of March as to what they would like to do.