Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a state aid intervention, which means it needs to pass muster with Europe. The Deputy will be aware that we are working to allow our technological universities to borrow to build student accommodation. That is being worked on in parallel with other measures. That is separate to what we have discussed heretofore. We hope to allow our technological universities to do that. As the Deputy knows, they could not borrow under the legacy legislation that applied to those universities when they were institutes of technology.