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
Donna McGettigan (Clare, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
On the student accommodation and dual use, having visited other universities that have accommodation one thing they state clearly is they rent out those units and the money that brings in gets passed on to students again, which means accommodation is cheaper for them. That is what these universities use it for. In the new strategy, where it could be looking like shared accommodation, I am not sure we would be able to do that with it or that it would be viable for that kind of thing. Do the officials have concerns about that? Students' unions I spoke to last week said they had concerns about it.
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