Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I am interested. There are some issues I could go over regarding the borrowing. The Chairman might allow me a little more time. I have some concerns around public-private contracts and how the TUs see their set-up. If the representatives were in a position tomorrow morning to be able to borrow and invest, how would we make sure the accommodation is owned by the campus, and publicly owned, rather than through public-private contracts that may end up costing us much more in the end? Have they put any thought into that? We need a discussion specifically on accommodation and we need a new student accommodation strategy. We have been requesting that these issues be discussed.
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