Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Select Committee on Education and Skills

Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised)

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

The OECD skills strategy has been published and we are looking at it. We will get back to the Deputy with a note on that.

There is a grid that provides information on student accommodation. Since 2016, 14,079 purpose-built student accommodation beds have been built and work is under way on-site on an additional 7,023 bed spaces, of which 3,040 are publicly owned. Planning permission for a further 11,008 bed spaces has been obtained and a further 1,712 bed spaces are in the planning system at the moment. Therefore, as I have previously said, the total level of purpose-built student accommodation stock is currently about 48,000 bed spaces across the country. The grid shows what is completed and what it is on-site, the planning that has been granted and the planning that has been applied for, and we can furnish the committee with that after the meeting.

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