Mr. Declan Whelan-Curtin:

From a health promotion perspective, we had a successful round-table discussion with key stakeholders in higher education a couple of weeks ago. We explored what the potential issues were as well as potential solutions. Housing and accommodation was a key challenge there, especially for staff working within settings who were very committed to solutions but felt quite powerless about what they could do. We had some lovely examples of initiatives. UL has a commuter hub initiative, which is again built around this idea of connectedness and belonging. That was having subsequent positive impacts in the sense that friendships developed through that commuter hub model were leading to further supports and things like that. Housing and accommodation was a key challenge we heard from our stakeholders at that higher education event.