Written answers

Wednesday, 27 January 2021

Department of Education and Skills

Student Accommodation

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The number of additional purpose-built student accommodations beds that have been added since the launch of the National Student Accommodation Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3846/21]

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown between higher education institute-owned accommodation and private sector accommodation in terms of beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3848/21]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 582 and 584 together.

According to a HEA report on supply and demand of student accommodation published in 2017, in 2014 the breakdown of HEI-owned and privately owned student accommodation was as follows:

HEI-owned Private Total
11,114 20,182 31,296

My Department began tracking the completion of student accommodation bedspaces after the launch of Rebuilding Ireland in 2016. The National Student Accommodation Strategy (NSAS) set out a target of 7,000 additional bedspaces to be completed by Q4 2019. This was surpassed, with more than 8,000 additional bedspaces being completed by the end of 2019. As of Q4 2020, the number of additional bedspaces completed stands at 10,742. The number of PBSA bedspaces completed per year since July 2016 can be seen in the table below:

Year Private HEI-owned Total
2016 478 650 1128
2017 1478 0 1478
2018 2100 429 2529
2019 2961 250 3211
2020 2396 0 2396
Total 9413 1329 10742

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average rent per student in purpose-built student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3847/21]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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This information is not available in my Department, as information on rent paid by students for purpose-built student accommodation is not collected.

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