Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I can, and it will be replaced in 2023. The first priority, and it has to be my first one, is to get building student accommodation. There are a number of sites and universities that have planning permission and land today and I need to get those projects built. It has not been possible to build them, and I do not mean to say this in a critical way of them, for whatever one may want to call it, be it market failure or lack of viability. We need to make a State intervention to get these projects moving. I intend to bring proposals to the Cabinet committee this month to make progress on that.

Once we get that over the way, I believe it will be right we then replace the student accommodation strategy with one that is up to date because a great deal has changed in the world, in housing and everything else, since the previous strategy was put in place. The Deputy can expect a new student accommodation strategy in 2023, but rather than having officials writing new strategies, the first thing I want to do is to try to get what are potentially several thousand units underway and moving in respect of universities which already have planning permission.

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