Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy should let me come back to him with a little bit more specificity but this is very active at the moment.

I know the time sensitivity of it.

I also want to acknowledge the Waterford Crystal site. It is another thing which some people in Waterford at a political level said we would never purchase. We did and I thank the Deputy for his work with us on that. My understanding is that the South East Technological University is now doing a degree in master planning on that site. We stand ready as a Department to help. We are not in the business of expending taxpayers' money on a prime site without developing it. I know the importance of that site to the university but I also know the importance of that site beyond the university in city regeneration and in some of the other projects the Deputy is involved in.

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