Damien English (Meath, Fine Gael)
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Question 1425: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to provide a third level education campus in County Meath, in order to allow the people living there to advance their skills base for the knowledge society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43804/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In the State as a whole, there are over twenty publicly-funded higher education institutions — seven of which are universitiesand fourteen institutes of technology. In its review of Irish Higher Education published in 2004, the OECD observed that Irish Third Level Institutions were relatively small by international standards and that this posed particular challenges in terms of achieving critical mass for academic provision, infrastructure, research and support mechanisms.

In view of the current level of third level provision nationally, there are no plans to create additional third-level campuses.