Professor Brian Norton:

No. The facility in Mountjoy Square was concerned with fine art, art design, visual communications and product design. In Portland Row it was fine art and in Temple Bar it was photography. We have the building in Mountjoy Square on a long-term lease and we want to continue to use the property. It is close to our campus in Cathal Brugha Street but we do not provide libraries at all our sites. We only provide libraries at six sites and students move between them. We have a range of access programmes in Mountjoy Square and the students there use the library in Cathal Brugha Street. We keep this under review, because if there is a particular need for a subset of library stock, we will provide that.

There are a number of access programmes, such as mature access programmes as well as more traditional programmes, which are offered as taster programmes for a range of things. These exist in Mountjoy Square and other campuses.