Mr. David Walsh:

We have figures from the Higher Education Authority up to April 2017. It is calculated that since Rebuilding Ireland was published in July 2016, 1,067 additional student beds have come online. This breaks down broadly to 600 controlled and owned by the higher education institutes and 470 privately owned. A further 9,830 are in various stages of planning and are expected to be delivered by 2019. That includes 4,300 under construction, 3,500 where permission has been applied for and about 2,000 where permission has been granted.