€200m building spend to create 8,000 spaces at ITs

A €200m building spend at 11 institutes of technology will create extra spaces for around 8,000 students in state-of-the-art facilities for everything from catering to computer science.

The projects, whose approval is being announced this morning, are to be funded through a public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement for the Department of Education.

It expects the first projects to be open to students by 2021 at the earliest, assuming everything goes smoothly with the process of design and planning and agreement with the private contractor or contractors selected to build them.