Seán Connick (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 320 of 28 May 2008, the further consideration which has been given to the establishment of a university in the south-east region. [37323/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that applications have been received from 3 Institutes of Technology for designation as Universities. These applications raise significant issues regarding Government policy towards higher education, in particular the existing roles of the Universities and Institutes of Technology which have distinctive missions from each other, provide different levels and types of academic programmes, fulfil different roles in the community and have separate academic and governance structures. I have met with all of Institutes of Technology concerned and I expect that consideration of the applications on hand will be finalised in the near future.