 DCU President, Professor Brian McCrath discussed the prefab-like units that DCU Chancellor Martin McLeese suggested students could be housed in during a governing authority meeting. A piece of being spent, I mean there's about a hundred million Euro planned to be spent on student accommodation, that's a much, about 900 or 1,000 beds is going to cost us, that's a lot of money. So trying to get that right so you'll see and we have to knock some buildings on this campus to allow for a bigger amount to go up but the net gain, the net gain in student beds will be somewhere of the order of 900 or 1,000 beds. But that's not enough, we've over 17,000 students, currently we're about 1450 student beds. I've seen a project similar to this which was container housing a little bit different and I've seen that that was their response to student accommodation crisis and myself, I actually live in Waterford originally and it's very hard for me to get student accommodation here and I felt geez this is a great thing if we bring it to Dublin it could really combat the student accommodation crisis. All the campus development stuff you see going on, the U, the extension to the Stokes building, these new student accommodation, it's loan finance, no one's giving us the money for these, right? So the European Investment Bank, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, they're the two main sources so we have to pay it back typically over 20 or 30 years. So we max out on the number of loans, the amount of loans we can take, the government's controls, what loan level we can get to so that we're not making yourself too risky financially and that's proper order. So we look at other models where we can perhaps partner up with external entities and this would be PPP's public-private partnerships where they might pay for and build a block of accommodation and they might take the income for the first X years so they get their money back and then we take over. Darren contacted us and we took him over to Amsterdam and showed him all the different schemes that we have one in there. A lot of the students there only pay about 400 euros a month and they've got pretty decent living accommodation so I decided to bring it here, showed the students and you tell me what you think. DCU students commented on the unit and whether they thought it was a viable option. Personally I don't think they're doing enough as I lived in student accommodation last year and it was pretty, for what your opinion it just was not great at all so and that really doesn't look much better to be honest. It's not a bad idea but we definitely would need more than just like a couple of hundred places to be honest there's a lot more students that are struggling like still I know people that don't have accommodation and it's like almost semester two. I don't know how much they can do themselves I suppose they could build more kind of of their own you know they have said in Arkfield I don't know if they've room for a third set if they could do it it definitely helped. Coach Caden with DCU TV News