Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Very good. This is a very parochial setting. Everyone will make a pitch for the university closest to them. Unfortunately, I do not think our university in the midlands has made a play for this new institution. Thinking hypothetically, however, if this endeavour got to the point where it was not just UL but UL and another institution, along with UCD, would the witnesses think such a situation would dilute the prospects in this regard? Is it a case of two locations rather than three?