Ms Ann Campbell:

The original capacity of Dundalk Institute of Technology before we redeployed staff was for 60 blocks. We had considerable difficulty when the bottom fell out of that particular market in that we had staff for which there was no voluntary redundancy scheme. We had to retrain and redeploy staff, which took a lot of time to do. We would not like to find ourselves in that position again. When we got to the bottom of the cycle, we really had a problem and we would not like to face that again. We anticipate that we have current capacity for 35 blocks, which we would be very glad to get. We are happy that the HEA has informed us that we will 28 blocks this semester.