Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

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

Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Deirdre Lillis:

I will very briefly echo and endorse the comments about the Grangegorman development. It is a national asset at this point. At the time, it was visionary to continue it at the height of the doom and gloom back then. There is an open invite to anybody who would like to come up. It is a measure of the transformation up there. My office in Grangegorman, the Clock Tower, used to be a women's prison. You can see that measure of transformation, urban regeneration and how higher education can work with and for a community. I cannot take any credit for it. All the ideas came before me but it is absolutely phenomenal. Anybody is more than welcome and if the committee would like to host a meeting up there, we would be very happy to do that as well.

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