Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Student Accommodation: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Ciaran McCaffrey:

I will come in on a few small points. The Deputy talks about the cohort of students in purpose-built student accommodation. The surveys we have done suggest that the majority of first years tend to be housed in purpose-built student accommodation. Around 35% of respondents surveyed reside in purpose-built student accommodation and a significant proportion of those are first-year students.

On whether we know about the potential capacity of accommodation that could be built on university-owned land, we have done quite a lot of work on the short-term activation programme, so we know there is a pipeline of proposals as part of that programme and we will assess them as we go through with the various bits of due diligence. There is a master plan for most of the universities and some of them include student accommodation. Some have sites proximate to them that are ideal for student accommodation also.

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