Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are offering joined-up thinking, while the Deputy is offering traditional pork barrel politics by asking for a university in every county. If we have small institutions that cannot deliver the service their regional base needs it will produce a second-class offering to the people, including in Wexford. I am trying to create a quality regional institution, a technological university, that can have the necessary research, progression and innovation capability to be a genuine support to regional diversity and development.

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