Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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I am talking about craft registrations because these are the people who want to build the homes we need. I welcome people doing all different types of apprenticeships, but to be honest I think it is a bit mad that we are talking about 6,500 craft registrations in 2023. Then the Ministers on the day of the budget start talking about 6,800 registrations as if this is massive growth.

I turn to the technological universities. Is the concept of moving off balance sheet the borrowing for delivery of student accommodation totally off the plan now? There had been talk at the start that in order for them to deliver student accommodation it would move off balance sheet. I raised this with the Minister's predecessor, and it seemed that was being moved away from. Is there any update on that? Is it something that is going to happen? If not, what is the plan? Will it be PPPs?