The President of DCU has called on the Government to regulate private student accommodation. Students will be asked to pay €8,695 for eight and a half months in the purpose-built accommodation. He said: "We're very concerned about the burden being placed on students in terms of the rapidly escalating private accommodation rental costs. "The escalating construction costs for student accommodation is a matter of real concern.​ ​For example, the costs of construction for the University of a five bedroom student apartment is now in excess of €550,000, excluding land purchase costs. "The issue has the potential to limit the scale of future University investments and will inevitably result in increased rental costs for Irish and international students.

Source: Evening echo March 30, 2018 05:37 UTC