Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Select Committee on Education and Skills
Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage
5:00 pm
Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
TU4Dublin is committed to fully-serviced campuses. There is a commitment in budget 2018 for €200 million regarding a PPP project in this regard. The institutions of technology need to come together to decide on a name. We are not imposing a name but I think it is very important that the different institutes - Tallaght, Blanchardstown, etc. - keep their names. We want them to progress and we do not want to freeze everything. I hope the TUs can improve their offers of programmes because we want them to be more attractive. We want them to be centres of excellence and we want students to choose to go to TUs.
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