Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What the Minister said about the regional campus support fund is very welcome. Hopefully, Killybegs will be in a position to avail of that because it is very significant and very significant for smaller campuses. One of the problems in Killybegs over the years was trying to attract funding as a very small part of Letterkenny Institute of Technology but it is a more integral part of ATU, which is very important. That regional campus support fund will be a very useful and welcome development. I appreciate that.

As the Minister outlined, it is true that Killybegs has a tradition in culinary arts, has done very well in this area and has a very high reputation going back years when it was a CERT college. That needs to fostered and developed and the funding could do that. Working within the marine cluster is very significant and shows the potential for the future development of the college so that is very important and I am glad that it is integral to the Minister's thinking.

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