Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
5:30 pm
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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It is ongoing and, as the Deputy can imagine, the level of engagement we have is continuous. There is also a Eurostat issue we need to have due regard to, which we will. To be fair, if the Deputy looks at what we have done with the technological university sector over the past couple of weeks alone, it is clear there is a fundamental change with regard to how the technological sector is viewed. That is clear just from the evidence of the two new veterinary colleges, one of which is down the road from the Deputy and which I am sure she will use the opportunity to welcome.