Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy may be aware that there is already a significant level of co-operation between a number of institutions in the region. An alliance agreement between Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology, Sligo was signed in July 2012. It commits the partners to the development of significant and meaningful collaborations on a comprehensive range of activities. I hope the co-operation that is under way will lead to a far more fruitful use of scarce State resources and offer students a number of different and interesting educational options. I remind the Deputy that all higher education institutions, including LYIT, are responsible for the internal allocation of the funding provided to them by the HEA. Decisions on the future funding of the tourism college in Killybegs will ultimately rest with the governing body of LYIT.

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