 I'm here outside DCU St. Patrick's Campus where a recent investigation by the College U exposed some of the poor living standards among the on-campus accommodation. Since the official incorporation last year, some of the on-campus accommodation had to rise by 38% to match that of DCU's accommodation block, Larkfield. Here we have St. Patrick's Campus first-year accommodation, which prior to this year cost students €3,300. In order to match the rent price of DCU's Glassneven Campus first-year accommodation, these apartments rose to over €4,500 per student. However, no living improvements were made. Students are forced to share one kitchen for every 40 to 60 students, where mould lingers on the walls and cupboard doors are missing in an environment with inadequate ventilation. Tenants here have to travel across to the common room to eat and across the hall to use the toilets, which in some cases might not even work. On floor two in House Tree, Lismore, one of the toilets was blocked since about the start of the year, and when the whole article came out there a few weeks ago about the facilities on campus, DCU came down and fixed up the toilet, which was grand, but it's back blocked again now, so we're living again with just one toilet on the floor. As opposed to Larkfield on the Glassneven Campus, students paid the same rate, although apartments are occupied by two people. Students here have a single room with a kitchen shared by two instead of 60. Larkfield residents do not have to travel elsewhere to go to the bathroom, with a toilet and shower connected to both rooms. It's evident that the St Pat's residents aren't happy. When you just go up to Larkfield and you see the different of the standard up there and we're playing the same price down here, you kind of have to question it. Well, it's very dear that the fact that it's gone up this year to meet, to match the price up in DCU, I don't really think that's fair. We're not getting the same standard of living. Like from the first, from the first semester, the toasters haven't worked. Recently, the oven has broken. The brand new ovens we got in September doesn't really seem like we're getting the same deal that they're getting up in DCU. William Dunn, DCU TV News, John Conger.