Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Arjumand Younus:

Yes. I recently went to UCD where I not been for a year because I have changed jobs. I saw all these lovely campus accommodation buildings being built and I read that it is not to solve the housing crisis of students. The rents are so high that very few students take up that accommodation. Many of the international students are still looking for accommodation outside the university. What is the point of spending so much on UCD accommodation, when nobody will take it? It is a capitalist model that-----