Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Deputy for a little degree of positivity. For the first time in the history of Waterford, people in Waterford city can get a university degree. People in Waterford county and in the south east, the Industrial Development Authority, IDA, Enterprise Ireland and even Sinn Féin, with respect to it, believe in it. The Opposition and the Government have come together on this. However, it does not work for the Deputy politically and we wish him well.

I am very clear on this issue and I am fed up with being misrepresented on it. We will expand the footprint. If the Deputy does not believe that we need to expand the footprint, that is a difference of a political view.

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