Mr. Stewart Roche:

The HEA, working with the Department of Education and Skills, produced a report on student accommodation back in 2015. We identified a shortage countrywide of 25,000 bed spaces. The Department of Education and Skills produced a strategy on student accommodation in the middle of last year and we fed the research on the updated figures into that particular strategy. There is a student accommodation interdepartmental working group which monitors the whole student accommodation situation.

We are also stacking all of the projects that are ongoing - on site, plans granted, plans applied and potential. At the moment countrywide, taking it into account, there are circa 20,000 PBSA that should be built by 2024.