Mr. Ciaran McCaffrey:

We could not agree more with what Deputy McGettigan says about the students to whom she has listened. More than 35,000 students responded to the survey we carried out over two years. We held focus groups at various stages involving students, parents and various stakeholders to get their views to try to inform the work we were doing and to feed it to our colleagues in the Department who were involved in the formation of the student accommodation strategy, which is due. Some really valuable information is being collated and it will hopefully inform the strategy.

On the short-term activation programme, UCD has gone through its internal governance processes as part of the procurement process and it is now with the HEA for decision. That will be happen in the very near future. As my colleague Mr. Lemass says, a decision on it is imminent. The other scheme in the short-term activation programme is in DCU, which is for 405 beds. That is currently going through the governance processes of the institution.