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Ł20m for UCD to relocate faculties

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / January 24 2000: Ł20m for UCD to relocate faculties

The Government has proposed funding of Ł20 million for University College Dublin to move out of Earlsfort Terrace and relocate its medicine and engineering faculties at its campus in Belfield, The Irish Times has learned. UCD has been operating from the building for the last 86 years and until 1970 the main part of the university was located there.

It is understood the Government was unhappy with a proposal from a developer to buy the site from UCD and build apartments and a hotel. Consequently it has tabled its own proposal and discussions with UCD have begun. The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Ms de Valera, and the Minister for Education and Science, Mr Martin, are understood to want the building to remain in public ownership.

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