Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitment under the New Decade, New Approach agreement to expand third-level opportunities for the persons in the north-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52023/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My officials are currently working with their counterparts in the Department for the Economy in NI, along with the President and Vice-Chancellor of Letterkenny Institute of Technology and University of Ulster respectively on the development of a proposal to address the commitment under New Decade New Approach.

This detailed engagement which has beeen ongoing for some months, is likely to finalise a proposal in the next few weeks, and I hope that I may be able to make a more detailed announcement early in 2022.