Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Waterford is unique among the five cities in Ireland for not having a stand-alone university. Other cities have a university and a technological university. The reality is SETU, or WIT as it was, has had to play that role within the region. We made a promise to the people of Waterford, and the wider south east, that SETU will be a university of scale and of substance. We had a very positive decision about the veterinary course that was announced recently. We are still awaiting a decision about the pharmacy course, for which we have a very strong bid in. We are also awaiting for many long years a final decision on the capital funding of the engineering building in Waterford. These are critical. This is the litmus test in terms of whether we are serious about this being a university for the south east. I ask the Minister where we are in respect of those decisions.

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