Minister for Higher Education James Lawless will today brief the Cabinet on a plan to deliver 42,000 new student beds.<\/p>\n
The minister will tell colleagues that the move is necessary to protect access to higher education as student numbers continue to rise.<\/p>\n
The strategy will centre on State-owned campus lands and private investment will be used to build new student accommodation at scale while keeping the land in public ownership.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke is bringing a memo to the Government to cut red tape for Irish companies working in the area of defence.<\/p>\n
It will remove the requirement for the IDA to secure Government approval prior to engaging with Irish small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who may be involved in the defence sector.<\/p>\n
Mr Burke is proposing to delete part of the Science and Technology Act 1987, which he considers a constraint to businesses making dual-use products.<\/p>\n
He will tell colleagues that this is particularly relevant in areas such as cybersecurity, AI and space systems where Irish companies have built up expertise.<\/p>\n
Mr Burke believes the change will give Irish firms opportunities at time when many EU member states are spending more on defence.<\/p>\n
Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will bring two items to Cabinet aimed at speeding up the delivery of critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The first is a circular that will set out reforms to be implemented by the public sector bodies responsible for the key infrastructure areas of housing, energy, water and transport.<\/p>\n
These reforms will introduce strict timelines, clear guidance, and the use of parallel processes where possible.<\/p>\n
A second circular will establish a new cross-Government approach for responding to court judgments that may impact infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n
It will see senior officials and the Office of the Attorney General meeting following any such judgment to quickly respond.<\/p>\n
Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin will update colleagues on the deepening levels of cooperation with the UK following the second annual UK-Ireland 2030 Summit, which took place in Cork earlier this month.<\/p>\n
It focused on areas such as energy security and the transition to clean energy, protection of subsea infrastructure, cyber security, and competitiveness.<\/p>\n
A new group led by the Department of the Taoiseach and the UK Cabinet office has been set up to keep track of the summit’s goals.<\/p>\n
Minister for Housing James Browne will inform the Cabinet that the terms of reference for a comprehensive review of the Office of the Planning Regulator have been agreed.<\/p>\n
The review will determine the future role of the office and how best to align its work to the swift building of homes and infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Higher Education James Lawless will today brief the Cabinet on a plan to deliver 42,000 new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-362075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}