Ms Pauline Cadell:

I think the planning authority did not look across the situation to see where the student accommodation might be needed. It was like, “Well, the inner city can accommodate quite a lot because it is cheaper to buy land there.” There was also a big tax break, of course, for people building student accommodation. Quite frequently, if students could afford it, they were travelling from the city centre to University College Dublin, UCD. There was not much built out towards UCD. Now we have three universities fairly close to the city centre, which is a huge number. The accommodation needs to be shared across the board.