Professor Vincent Cunnane:

In a general sense we have State-owned land. The State is going through the Land Development Agency looking for county councils to find land in order to do things. We have State-owned land and we are not being asked to do anything with it.

On the rapid build, here is an opportunity for a pilot project to take innovative ways of building onto places where innovation is at the heart of it. Why would we not try different things other than a particular type? We should be doing the latest technologies, for example printing houses. We all grew up with less accommodation than is available now but I would love to see pilots of rapid-build innovative ways of delivery on State-owned land the technological universities have. We will be pushing through the national student accommodation strategy in a post-era where we have more capacity to be as flexible as possible in the delivery of student accommodation. Stackable comes and goes but it seems to be an ideal solution and an innovative solution to some of our problems.