Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to refer to the student accommodation strategy. The long-term student accommodation policy was approved by the Government in January 2024. This policy will inform future student accommodation strategies and schemes that are being developed throughout 2024 and beyond. The dual-benefit policy aims to increase the supply of specific accommodation, therefore removing students from the private rental market and increasing housing availability for private individuals and families.

I wish to refer to the technological university, TU, feasibility study because, as the Deputy well knows, we have a number of new technological universities. We conducted a TU feasibility study with the aim of developing a programmatic approach to facilitate future TU student accommodation proposals. The demand analysis, which was an output of phase 1 of the study, will inform the framework for delivery models of funding options as part of the second phase of the study. Phase 2, which is to identify potential proposals for the technological university sector for the delivery of student accommodation, is currently under way.

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