Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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Not so much the 15-minute city but I am glad that Mr. O'Rourke referenced a couple of areas that I will ask him to take a look at, and maybe go back to the Government on and one area concerns South East Technological University. He might not be aware that Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, was the top performing institute of technology in the country, which garnered the largest amount of research outside of the national universities for a number of years. There has been no investment whatsoever in capital infrastructure on that campus for more than 20 years, despite it supposedly being the south east's economic driver.

Second, there is a €350 million project plan that was devised by the former bursar, who is now the president of SETU, that the Government has been sitting on. There has been no capital investment at all on the site other than the purchase of the €4 million brownfield site, even though we have 30 other acres of development land, and have had for the past ten years. Therefore, I suggest there is a significant problem in respect of the south east in terms of development and the developing SETU. I ask Mr. O'Rourke to please look at that with the Government.