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

That policy will inform student accommodation strategies and schemes which are being developed throughout 2024. We also have conducted a feasibility study across the technological university sector, as the Deputy will know. That was basically an exercise in which we collaborated through the umbrella group for the technological universities. We asked them to identify their requirements and demands in their locations based on the future strategies of each technological university, based on the demographics and on the forecasting of students in each area. We are also, as I have outlined to the Deputy and previous speakers, conducting an exercise to make a standardised design to achieve value for money. There is a lot going on with that. Suffice it to say that we have a dedicated unit within the Department of further and higher education that is working in the whole space of student accommodation in conjunction with the technological universities and higher education institutions.

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