Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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I thank the Minister for that. It will be good to get those figures and look at them. On accommodation, there is the matter of providing for the accommodation to be in place and then there is the issue of affordability. Just yesterday, the figures came out for how much it is going to cost students to live in the new Dunlin Village accommodation in Galway. For a standard single, it is €815 per month. That is not realistic for anybody. When I was in college, people were paying €80 a week, so that is crazy stuff. How can we tackle that? It is a situation whereby people are going to locked out of third-level education unless they live beside a college.