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 mentioned dual use in our opening statement. It would be an innovative use, and I have done it myself, if students were to commute to Dublin, stay two nights a week and go back home. Maybe we could be flexible in students having campus accommodation for two nights a week and then it would be open. It would be almost a hostel-hotel type approach. That is the innovative thinking we could use. It is about making sure it is used off-peak. Not every student will stay around for the summer. They will not all want the 12 months. It is about innovative use as well as maybe innovative ways of building it.
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