Student accommodation crisis stopping people pursuing third-level education, committee told
The programme for government has committed to developing a multi-annual plan to urgently deliver new student accommodation, including through State-financed purpose-built student accommodation on public or private lands.
The accommodation crisis is stopping people from studying at third level, and it is threatening the future of Ireland’s knowledge economy, academics have warned.
Students are also dropping out from their courses because they have nowhere affordable to live, the Oireachtas committee on education, further, and higher education heard.
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