James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is dead right. There was a measure brought in recently, and I think there was general cross-party support for it, to reduce the length of the typical student lease to 41 weeks from 51 weeks, but that does not suit everybody either. We may begin to see the advent, particularly with the increase of purpose-built student accommodation, of a change to the typical student experience in that a lease was in September and out in May or June. Some students may well decide to stay for the long haul. If they are in a four-year course, maybe they will try to book in for four years or two years or whatever it may be. That typical exodus every early summer may not necessarily be a feature long term, and maybe people-----